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Inside the NASA Center in Maryland Helping Us Explore Space
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any spacecraft ever has, surviving expected temperatures of 1,800 ...
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Life's building blocks in Asteroid Bennu samples
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Life’s building blocks discovered in asteroid dust
This week, explore what lurks in asteroid dust, marvel at the world’s largest beaded burial, discover an elusive creature ...
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Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients
A team of researchers reported in the journal Nature on Wednesday that the asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of organic molecules, including many crucial building blocks of life.
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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Building Blocks for Life Found in OSIRIS-REx Sample Retrieval Mission, NASA Confirm
But with that out of the way, personnel like Jason Dworkin, Science and Exploration Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, could finally open the return capsule and send the samples ...
Scientists find life-friendly molecules in NASA’s asteroid samples
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
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Sergio McKenzie Named NASA Goddard Space Flight Center CIO
Sergio McKenzie, a 25-year IT veteran, has been appointed as chief information officer at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, according to a LinkedIn post published Wednesday. “[I’m] truly ...
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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
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In NASA asteroid samples, scientists discover key building blocks of life
A NASA spacecraft brought samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth in 2023. The first in-depth analyses of that material have revealed organic molecules, including building blocks of life.