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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.

The Wall Street Journal on MSN · 2d

Bennu Asteroid Contains Material Needed for Life, NASA Mission Finds

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter essential to life in dust and rock retrieved from an asteroid known as Bennu. The finding supports the theory that near-Earth asteroids,

The Associated Press on MSN · 3d

NASA brought back samples from asteroid Bennu. They revealed clues about the possible origins of life.

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.

Asteroid Bennu came from a distant, lost world of salty ponds

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

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Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

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