Life’s Building Blocks Lurked Inside NASA’s Bennu Asteroid Samples
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that shed light on how life arose.
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Sample returned from asteroid Bennu contained life's building blocks, scientists say
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Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists
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