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

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

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 mission has uncovered invaluable samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing ancient salty minerals and amino ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

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 ...