Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in Nature describes an unexpected discovery in the material delivered by OSIRIS-REx: residues of compounds left over by the evaporation of liquid water.
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Analysis of OSIRIS-REx Sample Shows Asteroid Bennu Has Ingredients for LifeBennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
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‘Chemical time capsule’: Asteroid Bennu’s salts tell tale of early solar systemIn a nutshell Scientists found pristine salt minerals in asteroid Bennu samples that formed in a specific sequence as ancient ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
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