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NASA reveals results from asteroid Bennu's sample return, hinting at the origins of life
Scientists are eager to delve deeper into Bennu's samples and anticipate additional insights from NASA's upcoming Europa Clipper mission to Jupiter's moon in 2030 hoping to uncover more about the ...
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NASA's Bennu samples contain life's building blocks, including amino acids and DNA/RNA nucleobases
Brines similar to those of Bennu have been detected on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Researchers propose that the body from which Bennu originated may have been located in the outer solar system ...
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What would happen if the OSIRIS-REx asteroid Bennu smashed into Earth in 2182?
They calculated that there is a very small chance — about 1-in-2700, or 0.037% to be exact — that asteroid Bennu, which is roughly ... 2024 YR4 could hit the moon instead of us, scientists ...
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Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu
In 2016, NASA embarked on a new and unique mission: sending the Osiris-REx spacecraft to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu to study the rocky space object and collect samples to return to ...
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NASA's astonishing discovery about asteroid Bennu could change everything
Scientists have confirmed the presence of organic molecules on the surface of the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, opening the door to the possibility that life on Earth arose from cosmic origins.