NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
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Life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu
By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...
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Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment ... The president’s Inaugural Address linked landing on the Red Planet with Manifest Destiny ...
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Smithsonian Podcast: There's More to That
After four years in space, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx craft made a brief landing on the asteroid ... sample collection canister landed, via parachute, in Utah. Scientists will be studying those samples ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
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Building Blocks Of Life Found On Asteroid Bennu
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
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Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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Why Asteroid Bennu Stumped NASA Scientists
Asteroid Bennu wasn’t what NASA expected. Instead of a smooth surface for sample collection, OSIRIS-REx encountered a chaotic ...
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Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...