EP 20: The Asteroid That Carried Life’s Ingredients

from The Habitable Zone · host Aidan Chan

In this episode, we will be covering new findings from asteroid Bennu samples returned by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission and how they suggest that the building blocks of life may have formed in cold regions of space long before Earth existed.Sources:https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2512461122 This Episode was Filmed and Edited by Aidan Chan and Vriddhi Mittal. Contact us at [email protected]

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