The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.
Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...
Penn State researchers think a key ingredient for life may have formed in deep freeze, not in a warm asteroid puddle. A space sample with a new twistScientists at Penn State; led by geoscientist ...
Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academ | Space ...
Samples returned from asteroid Bennu contain amino acids that may have formed in icy, radiation-filled environments rather ...
Analysis of samples returned from the carbonaceous asteroid Bennu suggests that amino acids could form in the cold fringes of ...
In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples of the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu to Earth. Upon examining them, scientists discovered that the asteroid – which existed when the Solar ...