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Scientists May Have Solved Mystery of Rare Solar System Building Block Published May 14, 2024 at 1:06 PM EDT Updated May 15, 2024 at 12:15 PM EDT By Jess Thomson ...

The building blocks of life could have been delivered to solar system dwarf planet Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

Bennu is both an old and a new asteroid. Like all of the millions of other objects in the asteroid belt, it formed 4.5 billion years ago when our solar system was just accreting.

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of life in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid. In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks ...