Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned the samples from Bennu, a near-Earth asteroid, in 2023. It's the biggest cosmic haul ...

The sample analysis detected 14 out of the 20 amino acids used by life on Earth to create proteins, as well as all five nucleobases essential ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex mission reveals vital chemical compounds in Bennu asteroid dust, including organic molecules essential for life, supporting the theory that asteroids may have delivered life's ...

Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...