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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 from outer space.

Samples from asteroid Bennu include life's building blocks

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA bases, as well as salts that formed early in the history of Bennu's parent body.

Life's key ingredients found in Bennu sample, proving asteroids can seed life on Earth and elsewhere

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have seeded life.

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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 ...

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 ...

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