New Scientist14d
The asteroid Bennu is even weirder than we thought
Analysis of samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu reveal that it has a bizarre chemical make-up and is ...
SFGate1mon
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
(THE CONVERSATION) A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965.
SETI Institute4d
Amino Acids on Bennu: NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Clues to Life’s Origins
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
GIGAZINE1mon
Why do organisms on Earth only have 'left-handed' amino acids? What did we find out by analyzing the amino acids on the asteroid Bennu?
The asteroid Bennu is a celestial body with an average diameter of about 560 meters that was discovered in 1999. It is said that it will approach Earth many times over the course of about 200 ...