Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

The video discusses NASA’s announcement that samples from asteroid Bennu contain sugars essential for life on Earth. Mudahar ...

Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academ | Space ...

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The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.

With the return of an Asteroid Bennu sample in 2023 as part of NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, researchers from the University of Arizona have made significant discoveries toward understanding the origins ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...

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