A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

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A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

The building blocks of life have been found on an alien asteroid, scientists have said. Samples taken by Nasa from the asteroid Bennu have not only the ingredients required to life but also show the ...

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His stuffed body is on display at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington D.C. A hundred years later, in 2021, researchers at the National Museum of Natural History and Smithsonian National Zoo ...

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