A Billion-Year-Old Secret Unlocked in Asteroid Bennu’s Dust
Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...
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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 ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA asteroid samples connect Earth to ancient water world
It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material. Small amounts of Bennu’s precious black grains ...
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Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
Additionally, researchers uncovered salts in the Bennu cache and minerals crucial ... that one day may carry humans to the moon and Mars. The spacecraft had broken apart minutes after liftoff ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
It remains the biggest cosmic haul from beyond the moon. The two previous asteroid sample missions, by Japan, yielded considerably less material.Small amounts of Bennu's precious black grains ...
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Are we all aliens? NASA asteroid samples connect Earth to ancient water world
Bennu — a rubble pile just one-third of a mile ... dwarf planet Ceres in the main asteroid belt. Jupiter’s moon Europa and Saturn’s moon Enceladus also beckon as enticing water worlds.