NASA's OSIRIS-REx Uncovers Essential Building Blocks of Life in Space 🌌

What are the findings from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, which brought samples from the asteroid Bennu back to Earth? Scientists have found many key components for life in these samples, including amino acids that are used to build proteins on Earth, as well as the base molecules of RNA and DNA! This raises some potent questions, like why life did not form on Bennu despite these conditions, and whether the compounds for life were first brought to Earth by an asteroid like Bennu.

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