The Weather Network on MSN6d
Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
NASA Uncovers Life’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu’s Pristine Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
Hosted on MSN6d
Gravel from space grab upends theories of how life began
A scoop of dust from an ancient time capsule hurtling through space has forced a rethink of how inert matter became all that ...
AZoQuantum on MSN6d
OSIRIS-REx Samples Provide Clues to Solar System’s Origins
Scientists from NASA and other institutions reported the findings of the first in-depth analysis of the minerals and ...
How Morocco Became the Meteorite Hunting Capital of the World
Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...
Life-bearing water arrived on Earth later rather than sooner, meteorite analysis suggests
A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...
Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
'It was so simple': How Antarctica's missing meteorites were discovered using a block of ice, a freezer and a lamp
"What if the iron stones were warming up to the point where they would actually melt the glacial ice beneath them and sink into it, perhaps even descending far enough so as to be hidden below the ...
New Scientist4d
A thrilling guide to the Indiana Jones-like world of meteorite hunting
Hunting for meteorites can be a high-octane race as private collectors and scientists go head-to-head, reveals a new book by ...
NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
MARCA3d
NASA raises the alert: new calculations place the Bernabeu-sized meteorite closer to Earth
NASA on alert for first time: Bernabeu-sized meteorite could collide with Earth in 2032 These are figures that could continue to vary until next April, when more will be known about the asteroid ...