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NASA’s Latest Asteroid Sample Hints at Life’s Extraterrestrial Origins


Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life were astonishingly widespread in the early solar system

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