Minerals Crucial to Life Found in Asteroid Samples From Space
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Lurking inside an asteroid: life’s ingredients
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
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NASA's Next Frontier: Return from Space and the Search for Life's Building Blocks
NASA reaffirms its plan with SpaceX to return two astronauts from the ISS, following President Trump's remarks. Another ...
Scientists find a 'next step on a pathway to life' in space
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
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Asteroid Bennu came from a distant, lost world of salty ponds
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
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NASA's new SPHEREx space telescope to launch in February — it can do what the JWST can't
SPHEREx is slated to launch Feb. 27 on a SpaceX rocket. It is meant to map the entire night sky in infrared — something even ...