A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...
This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...
NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...