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Scientists find mysterious ‘space gum’ ingredients for life on asteroid
Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock.
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Asteroid Bennu was missing just one ingredient needed to kickstart life – we just found it
It has been just over two years since NASA’s OSIRIS-REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of precious samples collected from ...
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NASA discovers 'space gum' and sugars 'crucial to life' in asteroid Bennu samples brought to Earth (video)
Analyzing pristine fragments of the asteroid delivered to Earth by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023, a team led by ...
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NASA’s astonishing find on asteroid Bennu breathes sweet, new life into age-old scientific question
The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...
Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...
Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...
This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu, which were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in September 2023. Bennu is a ...
Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. Asteroids, small airless bodies within the ...
Pristine samples of asteroid Bennu have revealed something entirely unexpected — not only does the asteroid contain the chemical building blocks of life, but it also originated from an ancient, ...
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