NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Could Cause A Global Catastrophe, Scientists Say
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
Roving the red planet: New paper documents first Mars mission soil samples
A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...
Asteroids like Bennu may have ‘delivered’ water, chemical building blocks for life to Earth — check NASA’s new discovery
The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...
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Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...
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Life in space? NASA discovers essential substances for life on a distant asteroid
as well as the five nucleobases that form an important part for DNA and RNA. Associate administrator at NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Nicky Fox states, "Their findings do not show evidence ...
Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.
NASA scientists find 'ingredients for life' in asteroid sample
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
Scientists Just Found DNA’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu – Could This Explain Life’s Origins?
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
Eiffel Tower-sized asteroid set to hit Earth in 2082 could result in 'prolonged winter'
Simulations of a massive asteroid, as wide as the Eiffel Tower is tall, suggest Earth could face catastrophic consequences, ...
Biophysicist: The existence of intelligent life beyond Earth is ‘highly likely’
The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...
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NASA Confirms 'Asteroid Bennu' Samples Contain Extraterrestrial Building Blocks of Life
The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly ...