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Asteroid Bennu Carries Most of Building Blocks of Life

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Bennu Asteroid Contains Material Needed for Life, NASA Mission Finds

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter essential to life in dust and rock retrieved from an asteroid known as Bennu. The finding supports the theory that near-Earth asteroids,

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Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system

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Building blocks of life identified in sample collected from asteroid Bennu

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona Scientists studying the sample collected in 2023 from asteroid Bennu have announced a dramatic finding: they have identified the key building blocks of life within the sample.

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Dust from asteroid Bennu suggests solar system's potential for life was widespread

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it ...

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Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

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