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New York TimesCarl Zimmer

NASA's OSIRIS-REx Finds Life's Building Blocks on Asteroid Bennu

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has returned samples from Asteroid Bennu, revealing key organic molecules, amino acids, and minerals essential for life. These findings suggest the possibility that such celestial bodies contributed to Earth's primordial chemistry.

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