Smithsonian Magazine on MSN9d
Scientists Discover Traces of Salt Water and Building Blocks of Life in NASA’s Samples From the Asteroid Bennu
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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What Is The Water Of Life In The Dune Universe?
To exist alongside the Shai-Hulud is to honor life itself, and revel in the mystifying forces baked into its very DNA. Frank ...
Near-earth asteroid sample dropped off in Utah by NASA contains ingredients of life
A sample from a primitive asteroid that was parachuted into Utah's West Desert in 2023 revealed the building blocks of life, ...
The Christian Century5d
A dustpan, a desert, and a search for moral order
Students at Deep Springs College vote on issues of governance in 2003. Since 1917 the unconventional school has enrolled ...
The Conversation on MSN9d
New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early Solar System
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Arizona Daily Star13dOpinion
Local opinion: We fight for the Santa Ritas to Preserve culture, water and life
This is not just a Tohono O’odham fight. The Santa Ritas are critical to the wellbeing of all who live in the region. As ...