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 ...

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.

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 successfully returned a generous chunk of the asteroid Bennu to Earth in 2023, and scientists have ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

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

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

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

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

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.