Elements in Samples from Asteroid Bennu Reflect Composition of Early Solar System, Study Says

Elements in Samples from Asteroid Bennu Reflect Composition of Early Solar System, Study Says

The very first bodies to form in the Solar System obtained their products from stars, the presolar molecular cloud and the protoplanetary disk. Asteroids that have actually not gone through…

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Samples of ‘alien’ asteroid Ryugu are crawling with life โ€” from Earth

Samples of ‘alien’ asteroid Ryugu are crawling with life โ€” from Earth

The sample collected from the asteroid Ryugu by the Hayabusa2 spacecraft. (Image credit: Yada, et al.; Nature Astronomy) A rock obtained from a near-Earth asteroid is crawling with microbial life,…

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