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Asteroid Bennu Carries Most of Building Blocks of Life

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.

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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.

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Bennu Samples Reveal Life's Building Blocks

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx

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Seeds of life found in asteroid rubble pile

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

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Life’s building blocks in Bennu samples

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023—the largest sample ever returned to Earth. Now, an international team of OSIRIS-REx ...

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