New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early Solar System
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
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Traces of Ancient Brine Discovered on the Asteroid Bennu Contain Minerals Crucial to Life
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
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Böker’s Mesmerizing New Pocket Knife Boasts an Otherworldly Ingredient
Highlighting the BRLW Meteorite Damast’s bevy of high-end materials is a blade steel element from outer freakin’ space.
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Earth's Oldest Material is Older Than Earth
Scientists recently identified the oldest material on Earth: stardust that's 7 billion years old, tucked away in a massive, rocky meteorite that struck our planet half a century ago. Some of these ...
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
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Ancient Water, Alien Salts, and Life’s Building Blocks Were All Found in Bennu Asteroid
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
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Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Minerals Crucial to Life Found in Asteroid Samples From Space
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a 1.2 Percent Earth Impact Risk
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.