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NASA finds building blocks for life in Bennu asteroid sample

Hosted on MSN · 19h

The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

Space on MSN · 21h

NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016.

The Verge · 17h

NASA finds building blocks for life in the Bennu asteroid sample

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ingredients of life as we know it.

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NASA's Bennu samples contain life's building blocks, including amino acids and DNA/RNA nucleobases

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

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Scientists Just Found DNA’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu – Could This Explain Life’s Origins?

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

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DNA building blocks found in asteroids for first time

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...

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NASA Alert! Massive 300-foot wide asteroid might hit Earth in...

A recent discovery by NASA showed that a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, can collide on Earth with more than 1% ...

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