Burnaby Now8dOpinion
Opinion: Is there life out there? The existence of other technological species is highly likely
According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, ...
Asteroid could hit Earth and spark global winter as year of 'impact' pinpointed
Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...
New Book Reveals Why We Need An Exoplanet Reality Check
Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.
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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 ...
Techno-Science.net15d
Major discovery: A large number of building blocks of life... on an asteroid
This image, taken by NASA's Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu. Scientists have identified 14 of the 20 amino acids used by terrestrial life, as well as the five nucleic acid ...
PBS16d
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 ...
The State Journal18d
Bluegrass Skies: Life and death from space
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) traveled 3.6 ...
Forbes19d
NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
In September 2023, the space agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned ... uses to store and transmit genetic instructions in DNA and RNA. “Asteroids provide a time capsule into ...
earth20d
NASA finds life's building blocks from an unknown water world in asteroid sample
All of this was discovered in just 4 ounces of dust and rock, carefully gathered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2023. Michelle Thompson, an associate professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary ...
The Weather Network21d
Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
which combine to form DNA (Cytosine, Adenine, Thymine, and Guanine) and RNA (Cytosine, Adenine, Guanine, and Uracil), were all found in samples of asteroid Bennu (NASA Goddard/OSIRIS-REx ...
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 all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...
Popular Mechanics21d
An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino acids, nucleobases, and minerals known as evaporites—all elements of ...