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Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid BennuTwo new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
The bulk of the soil solid fraction is constituted by soil minerals, which exert significant direct and indirect influences on the supply and availability of most nutrient elements. The main ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
CNN reports how new research from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center published to “Nature” has revealed that samples from the near-Earth asteroid, Bennu, contains organic compounds and minerals ...
The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.
Scientists have discovered a rich range of organic compounds in samples retrieved from an asteroid by a US spacecraft, including many of the key chemical building blocks of life.
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