New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early Solar System
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...
DNA building blocks found in asteroids for first time
The findings suggest that space rocks may have sparked life on Earth and that conditions for life may exist elsewhere in the ...
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Asteroid Dust Study Finds Early Solar System Saltwater
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from ...
A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid. Here's what was inside.
Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they ...
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Life's building blocks in Asteroid Bennu samples
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
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Woman ice skates on top of water in startling optical illusion
This is the amazing moment a woman appears to ice skate on top of water in Jämtland, Sweden on January 19. The woman is ...