Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...
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This well-known 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid may have formed in deep-space ice, not water
Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain amino acids that may have formed in icy, radiation-filled environments rather ...
The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.
Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academ | Space ...
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Analyzing material from a distant space rock
When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back samples from asteroid 101955 Bennu, researchers found that they contained amino ...
"We used to think that only very simple molecules could be created in these clouds. But we have shown that this is clearly not the case." When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...
How did life originate? Did it form on Earth or elsewhere in the solar system and was it seeded on Earth by impact of an asteroid? Will life eventually be wiped out by an asteroid? While we may never ...
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