The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. According to the study in Nature Astronom y, the team also found 14 of the 20 ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

Storage containers transformed into homes for Merced's homeless veterans ...

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