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Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world


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Published in Science and Technology on Wednesday, January 29th 2025 at 12:02 GMT by MSN   Print publication without navigation

  • Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient water world, scientists reported Wednesday. The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling

The article discusses NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, which successfully returned samples from the asteroid Bennu to Earth. These samples, collected in 2020 and returned in September 2023, are significant because they contain carbon-rich material and water-bearing clay minerals, suggesting that Bennu might have originated from a water-rich parent body. The presence of these materials supports the theory that life's building blocks could have been delivered to Earth via asteroids. Scientists are particularly excited about the potential to find organic compounds, which could provide insights into the origins of life not just on Earth but potentially elsewhere in the universe. The samples are currently being analyzed at NASA's Johnson Space Center, with initial findings indicating that Bennu's materials could indeed hold clues to life's cosmic origins.

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