Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
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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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Water arrived on Earth gradually over time, not in one big event
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
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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 ...
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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Life and Water Appeared on Earth After the Moon Formed, Researchers Say
Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...
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Asteroid ‘Bennu’ Found to Contain More Building Blocks for Life Than Any Sample Ever Found–An Ancient Brine of Multivitamins
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
‘Building blocks of life’ found on alien asteroid, scientists say
The building blocks of life have been found on an alien asteroid, scientists have said. Samples taken by Nasa from the ...
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, ...
Asteroid Bennu samples found to contain five nitrogenous bases crucial to supporting life
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...