In a recent study, scientists at the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University in South Korea ...
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence 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 ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...
Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...