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 ...
Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids.
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...
Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...
New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...
The latest discovery, unveiled by the NASA on January 29, came as a bit of a surprise and posed many exciting questions such ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...