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 ...
NASA Tracking Three Vehicle-Sized Asteroids Nearing Earth Today
The closest of the asteroids to us—estimated to be about the size of a car—is whizzing through space at 27,358 miles per hour ...
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Newly detected near-Earth asteroid has astronomers’ full attention
On Wednesday, an unprecedented memo from the International Asteroid Warning Network was sent to the United Nations Office for ...
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Most detailed survey of particles around the sun reveals new mysteries
More than a decade of data about the particles zipping around our sun can solve mysteries from the behaviour of individual ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
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Major discovery: A large number of building blocks of life... on an asteroid 🪐
Samples from the asteroid Bennu, brought back by the OSIRIS-REx mission, reveal key molecules for life. These discoveries ...
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OSIRIS-REx Samples Provide Clues to Solar System’s Origins
Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...