Kiley Price is a former Live Science staff writer based in New York City. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Slate, Mongabay and more.
The solar system holds many secrets that scientists are still trying to unravel. To help shed light on these mysteries, researchers are turning to space rocks of all kinds that may hold clues to the lost story of our solar system's past. This approach is already bearing fruit: In October 2023, NASA's OSIRIS REx mission discovered water and carbon — two of the precursors for life on Earth — on the 4.5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu.
Related: Undiscovered 'minimoons' may orbit Earth. Could they help us become an interplanetary species? For example, in 2019, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency retrieved samples from the diamond-shaped asteroid Ryugu, located more than 200 million miles from Earth. Later analysis revealed that the space rock contains stardust that predates our solar system, as well as"prebiotic organics," including several amino acids used by living beings to build proteins that form things like hair and muscles.
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