{"id":3394,"date":"2025-12-02T17:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2025-12-sugars-gum-stardust-nasa-asteroid-html\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:45:34","slug":"2025-12-sugars-gum-stardust-nasa-asteroid-html","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/2025-12-sugars-gum-stardust-nasa-asteroid-html\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugars, &#8216;gum,&#8217; stardust found in NASA&#8217;s asteroid Bennu samples"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Sugars, &#8216;gum,&#8217; stardust found in NASA&#8217;s asteroid Bennu samples<\/div>\n<p><!-- no image --><\/p>\n<div>The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists&#8217; biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine samples delivered to Earth by NASA&#8217;s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) spacecraft, three new papers published Tuesday by the journals Nature Geosciences and Nature Astronomy present remarkable discoveries: sugars essential for biology, a gum-like substance not seen before in astromaterials, and an unexpectedly high abundance of dust produced by supernova explosions.<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-12-sugars-gum-stardust-nasa-asteroid.html\">Go to Source<\/a><br \/>\nAuthor: <\/p>\n<div>The latest science news on astronomy, astrobiology,  and space exploration from Phys.org.<\/div>\n<hr>\n<p>SPACEPERIUM CORPS &#038; RESEARCH CONTRIBUTORS<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Please comment below with research and links for fellow members to conduct further research into this area.<br \/>\nYou must be registered and signed into SPACEPERIUM BLOG in order to leave your comment and get credited!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sugars, &#8216;gum,&#8217; stardust found in NASA&#8217;s asteroid Bennu samples The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists&#8217; biggest&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spaceperium-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/spaceperium\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}