US EditionAsteroid Evidence Suggests Building Blocks of Life Formed in the Frozen Outer Solar System
Penn State researchers found amino acids on asteroid Bennu formed in icy, radiation-rich environments, revealing diverse formation pathways for life's building blocks in the early solar system.
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A recent analysis of samples from the Bennu asteroid revealed that some amino acids were formed in conditions very different from those that science considered likely.The finding suggests that the basic components of life could originate in cold and radioactive environments of the primitive solar system, without the need for hot liquid water.The conclusions emerged from the study of rocky material of 4.6 billion years, collected by NASA's OSIRIS…
Asteroid samples NASA brought to Earth suggest life's building blocks may be widespread in the universe
Analysis of amino acids in NASA's OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample suggests they formed in the cold outer solar system, far from the warmer inner system where other amino acids formed.
Asteroid Evidence Suggests Building Blocks of Life Formed in the Frozen Outer Solar System
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft scooped up samples from asteroid Bennu and brought them back to Earth, scientists expected to find amino acids and clues about how they formed. The post Asteroid Evidence Suggests Building Blocks of Life Formed in the Frozen Outer Solar System appeared first on StudyFinds.
Asteroid Bennu Just Changed the Origin Story of Life
Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space. Scientists previously identified amino acids, the essential components of life, inside 4.6-billion-year-old rocks collected from the asteroid Bennu. These samples were brought back to Earth in 2023 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. While the discovery confirmed that life’s basic [...]
Asteroid Bennu sample finds life’s building blocks formed in space ice
Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twist Scientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist Allison Baczynski and postdoctoral researcher Ophélie McIntosh; studied amino acids in material from the asteroid Bennu. Their work appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered the Bennu sample to …
Amino Acids Discovered In Asteroid Bennu Formed In Space In The Early Solar System - Astrobiology
Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. How those amino acids — the molecules that create proteins and peptides in DNA — formed in space was a mystery, but new research led […] The post Amino Acids Discovered In Asteroid Bennu Formed In Space In The Early Solar System appeared first o…
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