This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

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NASA/James Tralie “We now know from Bennu that the raw ingredients of life were combining in really interesting and complex ways on Bennu’s parent body,” study co-lead author Tim McCoy ...

As asteroids crash into worlds across the galaxy, "they're essentially seeding these planets with the necessary ingredients for life," Tim McCoy, the curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's ...

Tim McCoy, co-lead author of the Nature study and curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Bennu is a carbon-rich space rock known as a rubble pile asteroid.

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