An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...
Astronomers are tracking giant asteroid's chances of hitting Earth
YR is considered to be larger than the Chelyabinsk asteroid that struck Russia in 2013. Its shock wave was strong enough to ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA’s returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains — leftovers from the solar system’s formation 4.5 ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Finding this organic material on Benu means that the building blocks of life could have come from an asteroid, and in our early solar system ... was the relatively high abundance of nitrogen ...