NASA Confirms 'Asteroid Bennu' Samples Contain Extraterrestrial Building Blocks of Life
The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly fragile and could never survive Earth’s contamination.” This ensures that the organic molecules detected are genuinely extraterrestrial, not contaminants from Earth.
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing 14 of the 20 essential amino acids for ...
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