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How NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission may help us understand the origins of life on Earth
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
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OSIRIS-REx Returning Asteroid Bennu Samples To Earth
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
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Major discovery: A large number of building blocks of life... on an asteroid
Samples from the asteroid Bennu, brought back by the OSIRIS-REx mission, reveal key molecules for life. These discoveries shed light on the chemical processes that may have seeded Earth billions of ...
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NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
It’s long been studied, most recently by NASA. In September 2023, the space agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned 122 grams of dust and rock from Bennu to Earth, collected during a ...
Physics World5d
Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
(Courtesy: James Di Loreto, Smithsonian) A sample of asteroid dirt brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission contains amino acids and the nucleobases of RNA and DNA, plus brines that could ...
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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
The asteroid, which contains the building blocks of life according to recent studies of samples returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, is a medium-size space rock reaching about 1,640 feet ...
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Are we not alone? Research suggests intelligent aliens may exist — perhaps even in our own galaxy
Humanity is exploring space faster than ever before. Scientists are collecting vast amounts of data from distant planets. The question remains: does life exist beyond Earth? New telescopes are ...
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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. If the near-Earth ...
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Why It's Likely That Other Technological Species Exist
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu when it was 207 million miles away from Earth and brought back rock and dust samples. Several countries have developed the ability ...