NASA’s findings from asteroid Bennu suggest solar system could be ‘teeming with the potential for life’
The rocks and dust collected from asteroid Bennu hold amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth, NASA reported Wednesday. The findings suggest the conditions necessary for ...
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 ...
Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
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Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
Moon rovers at the Houston Auto Show? NASA shows off its new wheels at NRG Center
NASA is displaying three moon rover mockups at the Houston Auto Show and Houston Boat Show – or the Houston AutoBoative Show, ...
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NASA's launching a new sun mission this month: 'PUNCH is going to see a total solar eclipse'
"We are the first mission to be able to track space weather events in three dimensions routinely across the solar system." ...
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20 years after crashing in the Utah desert, NASA's Genesis mission is still teaching us about solar wind
That's when ... not destroy solar wind atoms … all we had to do was find them," he said. The banged up Genesis sample capsule was transported to NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
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NASA Solar Observatory sees coronal loops flicker before big flares
For example, an automated system could look for brightness changes in coronal loops in real-time images from the Solar Dynamics ... Uritsky of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt ...