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Life-building blocks discovered

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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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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

Salon on MSN · 8h

Building blocks of life discovered on asteroid Bennu

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy. The research gives new insight into how life originated on Earth and where we might find it elsewhere in the universe.

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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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Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

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