NASA’s Historic Asteroid Sample Holds Clues to Life’s Origins
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.
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Compounds critical to life found on ancient asteroid
The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 billion years ago. The presence of evaporites means that sodium-rich water once ...
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
NASA's asteroid sample reveals key chemistry that could lead to life
Scientists poring over a sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds, ...
Fears chemical spray drift is affecting trees, but proving it is complicated
Harry Barclay says the peppercorn tree on his property loses its leaves when nearby cotton farms spray their plants with ...