Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
Learn about the new perspective on Earth's reduction of moderately volatile elements, a discovery made possible by meteorites ...
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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid BennuTwo new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.
Understanding how life as we know it came to exist, is something that scientists and researchers have long been examining by looking at the geological evidence we have left on Earth. A key place to ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 ...
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