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Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

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Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

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