Newly Discovered Asteroid Has a 1.2 Percent Earth Impact Risk
A 200-foot-wide asteroid found in December has a one-in-83 chance of hitting Earth, according to space agencies.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle17h
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Scientific American17h
Asteroid Bennu Is Packed with Life’s Building Blocks, New Studies Confirm
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...
Minerals Crucial to Life Found in Asteroid Samples From Space
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
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Traces of Ancient Brine Discovered on the Asteroid Bennu Contain Minerals Crucial to Life
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
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China Discovers €216 Billion Rare Earth Mine With 470,000 Tons of Critical Minerals in Yunnan—A Global Game-Changer
China has just dropped a rare earth bombshell—and the world is paying attention. A massive new deposit discovered in Yunnan ...