Scientists Just Found DNA’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu – Could This Explain Life’s Origins?
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back 121.6 grams of asteroid Bennu,
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
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