This comet, named ATLAS after the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System that discovered it, reached an extraordinary ...
On Monday, the comet was at perihelion ... Dusty samples had been scooped up from surface of asteroid Bennu in 2020.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
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Scientists stress more testing is needed to better understand the Bennu samples, as well as more asteroid and comet sample returns. China plans to launch an asteroid sample return mission this year.
"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...