NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission uncovers amino acids, nucleobases, and evnidence of ancient briny environments on Bennu, offering insights into the origins of life in the solar system.

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Asteroid samples reveal basic building blocks for life

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

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Bennu asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world

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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they found inside and what it could tell us about the origin of life on Earth.

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A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid. Here's what was inside

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start. “That’s the kind of environment that could have been essential …

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The findings suggest Bennu's parent was once home to pockets of liquid water. When these evaporated, they left behind a "briny broth" of salts and minerals.

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Life's 'Basic Building Blocks' Found In Asteroid Samples

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu

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Are we all aliens? Asteroid samples hint at existence of ancient watery world

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

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Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the “basic building blocks” for life, shedding new light on the perennial question of how...

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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely delivered the building blocks of life to our planet early in its history. The samples are also providing a window into understanding what kind of chemical and biological processes were already underway as space rocks c…

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Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say

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Asteroid Bennu Samples Reveal Key Ingredients for Life

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