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The Bennu asteroid reveals clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
Bennu asteroid samples yield watery history, key molecules for life
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
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Ancient Water, Alien Salts, and Life’s Building Blocks Were All Found in Bennu Asteroid
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
Fossils found in China may add a new branch to the human family tree
This week, meet a big-brained ancient human relative, hear a meteorite as it lands on Earth, spot a tiny kangaroo-like ...
Solar activity to peak in July, Farmer's Almanac says. How could it impact Texas weather?
High solar activity levels have historically been linked to warmer temperatures, on average, across Earth, according to the ...
Daily Maverick6d
Trump 2.0 Week One — The politics of vengeance and baksheesh
Absolutely nothing that Trump did in his first week was bland, businesslike or quietly efficient. It was just one startling, noisy thing after another, which is clearly the way he likes it.
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The Meteorites by Helen Gordon — to catch a falling star
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In the observation of meteorites, there are two distinct categories: the so-called “falls” seen ...
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Böker’s Mesmerizing New Pocket Knife Boasts an Otherworldly Ingredient
Because the blade on this here BRLW Meteorite Damast features a special sauce that’s pretty dang rare: real iron meteorite. For those who snoozed through science class, when a space rock called a ...