Asteroid Bennu may contain the building blocks of life within its 'rubble-pile' surface, and the body was once part of a much larger, water covered world, scientists claim. One of those papers, by Amy Simon of NASA Goddard, found evidence of carbon-bearing and organic materials widespread across the surface of Bennu. This is the first confirmed detection of these building blocks of life on a near-Earth asteroid, according to the team behind the study. Asteroid Bennu may contain the building blocks of life within its 'rubble-pile' surface, and the body was once part of a much larger, water covered world, scientists claimThese primitive building blocks of life are particularly concentrated on individual boulders, the team explained. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission created these images using false-color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) composites of asteroid Bennu.

Source: Daily Mail October 09, 2020 11:37 UTC