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Mark Kelly hails exciting Bennu discovery linking sugars to RNA origins
Could a dusty rock hurtling through space hold the recipe for life? NASA’s latest analysis of asteroid Bennu’s pristine ...
Modern Engineering Marvels on MSN
Bennu’s sugars strengthen case for life’s cosmic origins
In a fragment of rock no heavier than a paperclip, scientists have found molecules that could rewrite humanity’s ...
Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...
Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...
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NASA’s astonishing find on asteroid Bennu breathes sweet, new life into age-old scientific question
The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...
Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...
Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...
We knew from prior analyses that a distant asteroid sampled in 2020 carried all but one of the molecules needed to kick-start ...
Why did life choose ribose? A new study uncovers a chemical advantage that may have given this sugar a head start in the origins of life. Credit: Stock Scripps scientists show that ribose may have ...
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