Meteorites Found On Earth

Bennu, Earth

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 of rock, ice and water that hints at how life could have formed on Earth.

New York Post on MSN · 4d

The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present in the early days of our solar system.

Salon on MSN · 3d

Building blocks of life discovered on asteroid Bennu

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal Nature Astronomy. The research gives new insight into how life originated on Earth and where we might find it elsewhere in the universe.

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First-of-its-kind video shows meteor striking the Earth at 37,000 mph

For the first time, someone has captured a meteor strike and the sound of its crash on video. Watch it for yourself!

Space.com7d

Earth is bombarded with rocks from space — but who gets to keep these ultimate antiques?

Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth. Every day, about 48.5 tons of space rock hurtle towards Earth.

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New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

Space on MSN4d

NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

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