NASA's Asteroid Samples Rewrite Early Solar System History

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has returned samples from the asteroid Bennu, providing new insights into the early solar system. The samples reveal that Bennu is a fragment of a larger, ancient, carbon-rich asteroid, containing essential building blocks of life such as phosphates and amino acids. These findings could help scientists understand the origins of life and the early stages of solar system evolution. The mission's success is detailed in Dante Lauretta's book, "The Asteroid Hunter."