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, ...

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 ...

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.

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from space and could have formed elsewhere. In 2016, Nasa sent its Osiris-Rex ...

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

"It was likely a key chemical building block through the formation of amino acids and nucleobases and, again, the genetic components of DNA and RNA." Perhaps Fox summed it up best: "The OSIRIS REx ...

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 ...

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

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned a generous ... In addition, Bennu contains all five of the nucleotide bases present in DNA and RNA. "Besides pointing to the outer solar system ...

“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 ...

OSIRIS-REx found that Bennu’s surface was far rougher ... nucleobases to store and transmit genetic instructions in RNA and DNA, including instructions on how to arrange amino acids like the ...