- Sugars, ‘Gum,’ Stardust Found in NASA’s Asteroid Bennu Samples
The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists’ biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life As part of the ongoing study of pristine samples delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, three new papers published Tuesday by the
- Space gum and sugars discovered in asteroid Bennu samples, NASA . . .
Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life developed on Earth, scientists say
- NASA discovers space gum and sugars crucial to life in asteroid . . .
Bennu samples contain life-friendly sugars, a strange "space-gum," and ancient stardust, offering fresh clues to how life's ingredients formed in the early solar system
- Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid
NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4 6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the
- Sugars, Gum-Like Substance and Stardust Found in Asteroid Bennu. . .
Another study in Nature Astronomy, led by Scott Sandford at NASA’s Ames Research Center and Zack Gainsforth of UC Berkeley, revealed the discovery of a gum-like substance in the Bennu samples
- Bio-essential sugars in samples from asteroid Bennu - Nature
Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain bio-essential sugars such as ribose and glucose that may have formed in the parent asteroid from brines containing formaldehyde, according to a
- In a First, NASA Scientists Find Life-Critical Sugars, ‘Gum,’ And . . .
In a landmark discovery, NASA scientists have found sugars essential for life, a mysterious “gum-like” substance, and stardust in samples from asteroid Bennu, providing new clues about the origins of life in our solar system The findings, published in Nature Geosciences and Nature Astronomy
- Scientists find mysterious ‘space gum’ ingredients for life on asteroid
Sugars essential for biology have been discovered in a gum-like substance in fragments from the Bennu space-rock
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