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Chile's Celestial Crisis: Dark Skies Under Threat
Chile's dark skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban development. The asteroid Bennu could pose a future risk to ...
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Scientists find a 'next step on a pathway to life' in space
More:High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed. How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu sample back to ...
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Scientists find a 'next step on a pathway to life' in space
More:High resolution photos of asteroid materials revealed. How NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft brought Bennu sample back to Earth. The findings were reported in two journal articles on Wednesday.
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NASA finds 'key to life' in Bennu asteroid samples
29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that ... 6 days ago SpaceX launches Maxar 3 mission, high-resolution commercial satellites Feb. 4 (UPI) -- SpaceX is ...
A Lake That Disappeared Holds Clues to Life Beyond Earth
Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...
Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...
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Asteroids like Bennu may have ‘delivered’ building blocks for life to Earth — Understanding NASA’s new discovery
A hot water extract from an asteroid Bennu sample was found to contain an "exceptionally high" and "surprising ... like the mirror images of L and D-serine pictured below. This means that early ...
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Asteroid Bennu samples found to contain five nitrogenous bases crucial to supporting life
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest ... with a ring structure containing carbon and nitrogen—using high-resolution mass ...