The next stop for the material was the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, which distributed samples to researchers across the globe. Ever since, scientists have been fussing over every pebble ...

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Now, new research has revealed the asteroid contains many of the chemical building blocks of life, such as amino acids and components found in DNA, said Dr. Daniel P. Glavin, senior scientist for ...