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 ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
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.
Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have ...
First off, in comparison to meteorites, which enter Earth's atmosphere while enduring a fiery reentry process before plummeting to the ground, the OSIRIS-REx samples are pristine due to the ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...