There’s an asteroid in space that may help us unravel how life on Earth originated

Written by on May 27, 2023

May 26, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EDT

Video taken on July 11, 2019, shows Japan's Hayabusa2 space probe land on Ryugu asteroid. (Video: JAXA via Storyful)

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It sounds like science fiction: Scientists deploy a spacecraft to a speeding asteroid, scoop dirt from the space rock and drop the fragments back on Earth somewhere in the Australian outback — all in pursuit of learning how life was, and . . .



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