Is Earth really exceptional?  A new book seems to reaffirm that notion.  But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.

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She was on the “tiger team” — the team of experts who were given first access to the sample of the asteroid Bennu returned from NASA’s OSIRIS ... skills to be leaders in the fast-paced and high-tech ...

Its mineral-rich brines bear similarities to deposits on asteroid Bennu and ... using the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS). Satellite image of image of the Long Valley Caldera ...

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This week, we examine how a phone call between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has raised concerns among European nations.

But samples taken directly out of an asteroid like Bennu, which has been floating around in the cold vacuum of space for billions of years, preserve a pristine ancient snapshot. Water and a high ...

1. A hot water extract from an asteroid Bennu sample was found to contain an "exceptionally high" and "surprising abundance" of ammonia, which is a key chemical building block for life.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...