Curtin University researchers have gained an unprecedented glimpse into the early history of our solar system through some of the most well-preserved asteroid samples ever collected, potentially ...

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WASHINGTON — A pinch of salt has helped unlock mysteries of our solar system’s earliest days ... As the brine became more concentrated through evaporation, sodium-calcium carbonates appeared ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

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Researchers also discovered salt crystals left behind on the asteroid Bennu billions of years ago by the slow evaporation of briny ... widespread across the early solar system,” said U of ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that asteroids hold molecules believed to be the precursors to these chemicals.