Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
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Meteorites From the Earliest Planets Reveal How Earth Lost Certain Elements
Learn about the new perspective on Earth's reduction of moderately volatile elements, a discovery made possible by meteorites ...
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Ancient meteorite discovery may explain Earth’s missing elements
Scientists have long debated why Earth and Mars lack certain essential elements. A new study reveals that these missing ...
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Researchers Solve Mystery of Copper and Zinc Scarcity on Earth
Researchers found How Violent Events During Earth's Formation Led to the Scarcity of Moderately Volatile Elements (MVE) Like ...
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Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
Briny Traces in NASA’s Asteroid Sample Hold Clues to the Chemistry of Life
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
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Building Blocks Of Life Found On Asteroid Bennu
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
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NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
While all of the organic molecules found in the Bennu samples have been identified before in meteorites ... said the University of Arizona's Dante Lauretta, the mission's chief scientist who ...