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Asteroid Bennu contains the stuff of life, sample analysis reveals

06 Feb 2025
Tim McCoy and Cari Corrigan
Analysing returned samples Tim McCoy (right), curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and research geologist Cari Corrigan examine scanning electron microscope (SEM) images of a Bennu sample. (Courtesy: James Di Loreto, Smithsonian)
A sample of asteroid dirt brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission contains amino acids

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Keith Cooper is a science writer based in the UK
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