Scientists Make a Game-Changing Find in the Bennu Asteroid

Scientists Make a Game-Changing Find in the Bennu Asteroid

According to the researchers from the University of Pennsylvania, some of the amino acids found in the asteroid Bennu likely formed in a different way than was previously thought, effectively challenging what we thought we knew about the origins of life.

Asteroid Samples Suggest The Building Blocks Of Life Formed In Icy Conditions At The Dawn Of The Solar System

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft collected samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu and brought them back to Earth. They found amino acids, the building blocks of proteins and life itself, in the rock samples. It was a mystery as to how the amino acids were formed in space, but new research has […]