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Ancient Water, Alien Salts, and Life’s Building Blocks Were All Found in Bennu Asteroid
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
‘1.5 million-year-old’ hand axes, 850 artifacts unearthed in Iraq’s dried-up lake
Archaeologists have found a large collection of ancient stone tools in Iraq. In total, they found over 850 objects in the Al-Shabakah area of the Iraqi Western Desert.
Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
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Curiosity Rover Spots Ancient Water Ripples on Mars, Hinting at a Past With Shallow, Ice-Free Lakes
The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet's Gale Crater suggest the presence of long-gone bodies of liquid water, with no ice covering the surface ...
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4,800-Years-Old Neolithic Relics Discovered in Tibet
Archaeologists have discovered 4,800-year-old relics in the earliest known lakeside settlement in Tibet, officially the ...
Bennu Asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
NASA rover spots proof that Mars hosted more than just lakes
The car-sized Curiosity rover has spotted evidence of once quite hospitable environs on Mars.
Ancient lava formations shed light on Mars’s transition from a water-rich planet
The study of ancient lava formations on Mars is the most complete to date from a series of observations conducted on the ...
Archaeologists astounded by 1,000-year-old 'Lion City' under Chinese lake
Lost for decades, divers were finally granted permission to find and explore the city's ancient streets which flourished ...
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...