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February 1, 2025 Link Blog

Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples

New discoveries from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission were ‘a complete surprise.’

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in Nature describes an unexpected discovery in the material delivered by OSIRIS-REx: residues of compounds left over by the evaporation of liquid water.

By way of Popular Science

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