There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...

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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples ... along with ammonia and nucleobases crucial for DNA and RNA. Despite having the building blocks for life, Bennu did not develop life ...

“NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook on what we ... Those chemicals are key to building both DNA and RNA, the compounds that give rise to all living things on Earth. The sample ...

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they found inside and what it could tell us about the origin of life on Earth.

RNA carries genetic information it receives ... ago," said astrobiologist and study co-author Jason Dworkin, the OSIRIS-REx project scientist. The Bennu organic compounds all have been identified ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's essential ingredients.