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Asteroid Holds The Key Building Blocks To Life

January 31, 2025

A capsule carrying about a half cup of dust and rocks from an ancient asteroid named Bennu landed in the Utah desert in 2023. The samples were collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, which sent a probe to rendezvous with Bennu in outer space. The mission took seven years, start to finish. Small portions of the samples were given to researchers. Now scientists at the Smithsonian Institution, University of Arizona, NASA and other institutions say they’ve uncovered the key building blocks of life inside them.

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