Scientists Just Found DNA’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu – Could This Explain Life’s Origins?
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back 121.6 grams of asteroid Bennu,
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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that meansThere are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.
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