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 ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
The pristine nature of the Bennu samples is crucial. Daniel Glavin of NASA noted, “The clues we’re finding are incredibly ...
NASA has unveiled discoveries made from examining samples taken from the asteroid Bennu, which shed light on how widely the ...