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Material collected from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contains 14 of the 20 amino acids used in Earth ...
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Two asteroid encounters by Japan and China reveal new clues about small worlds, sample returns, and future planetary defense.
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