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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
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NASA's Osiris-Rex probe: Sample from asteroid Bennu weighs more than 121 grams
For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex asteroid probe. It was found to contain over 51 grams. NASA's Osiris-Rex probe has brought a total of 121.6 grams of ...
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Analysis of OSIRIS-REx Sample Shows Asteroid Bennu Has Ingredients for Life
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous ... sodium carbonate salts highlighted in purple. The Bennu sample container. Credit: NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples ...
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Asteroid Bennu contains the 'seeds of life,' OSIRIS-REx samples reveal
Scientists have discovered the essential building blocks to life on a sample from a distant asteroid. The sample, which the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected from the asteroid Bennu and returned to ...
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Rochester's Righter Shields NASA Space Rocks Clean
Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...
Spacefarers may contaminate other worlds – but scientists have plans to keep the cosmos clean
The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...