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 ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

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

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

The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016. The first goal of OSIRIS-REx was to blast a spacecraft toward the ...

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

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

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