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.
Bennu has a diameter of roughly 500 meters (1,640 feet) and has a 1 in 2,700 chance of hitting our planet in September 2182.
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Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of lifeThe Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
A new climate modeling study published in the journal Science Advances by researchers from the IBS Center for Climate Physics ...
NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how deep it went. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
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