Asteroid Bennu Holds the Building Blocks of Life

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Asteroid Bennu Holds the Building Blocks of Life

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Science@beehaw.org · 17 days ago

Asteroid Bennu Holds the Building Blocks of Life

What can a space rock tell us about life on Earth? NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft made a careful approach to the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu in October of 2020 to collect surface samples. In September 2023, the robotic spaceship returned these samples to Earth.

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