A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in ... and the five nucleobases for DNA and RNA. As asteroids crash into worlds across the galaxy, "they're essentially seeding ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Japanese collaborators detected all five ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth.

It was all the way back in September 2023 when the return capsule from NASA's OSIRIS-REx sample-return mission ... necessary in the construction of DNA and RNA were found in abundance within ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft delivered the samples to Earth ... that life uses to store and transmit genetic instructions in DNA and RNA, which serve as the blueprints of life.

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 ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid ... years ago," said astrobiologist and study co-author Jason Dworkin, the OSIRIS-REx project scientist. The Bennu organic compounds all have been identified previously ...