There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused ...
Bennu, it seems, was born of a salty planetoid rife with the ingredients for life. Bennu as it exists today is essentially a ...
Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.