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NASA Scientists Discover DNA & RNA in Asteroid Bennu

In a remarkable scientific breakthrough, NASA has confirmed that samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain all five ...
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded

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. Fragments of this ...
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Asteroid Bennu Is A "Frankenstein's Monster" Of Material From The Inner Solar System, Outer, And Beyond

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Asteroid Bennu is a time capsule of materials bearing witness to its origin and transformation over billions of years

Jessica Barnes examines a vial containing sample particles at the Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, located at the University of Arizona. Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's ...
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Asteroid Bennu Has A Tiny Chance Of Hitting Earth – Which Could Start A Global Winter

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Asteroid Bennu came from a distant, lost world of salty ponds

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried over thousands of years and life’s basic ingredients were widespread.
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Near-Earth asteroid Bennu could hit Earth in 157 years and set off a global ‘impact winter,’ study says

Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. If the near-Earth ...
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Asteroid Bennu is a time capsule of materials bearing witness to its origin and transformation over billions of years

Three publications by the UA-led OSIRIS-REx sample analysis team reveal the asteroid's composition and history in unprecedented detail. (Nanowerk News) Asteroid Bennu — the target of NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...
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Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Timothy J McCoy, Smithsonian Institution and Sara Russell, Natural History Museum (THE ...