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NASA finds key ingredients of life

The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

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Scientists Just Found DNA’s Building Blocks in Asteroid Bennu – Could This Explain Life’s Origins?

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back 121.6 grams of asteroid Bennu,

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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means

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, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams, Butch Wilmore make history with record-breaking 5.5-hour spacewalk, watch video

This marked Williams' ninth spacewalk and Wilmore's fifth. With this latest achievement, Williams now holds a total of 62 hours and 6 minutes of spacewalk time, placing her fourth on NASA's all-time ...

Lurking Inside an Asteroid: Life’s Ingredients

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

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White House Reignites “Mystery Drone” Controversy with Puzzling New Statement

This week, the White House's latest revelations involving the ongoing "mystery drone" saga only raise more questions.

Meet Shubhanshu Shukla, IAF officer who became first Indian astronaut for NASA’s Axiom Mission 4 to ISS

Indian Air Force (IAF) officer and ISRO astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is set to become the pilot for NASA’s Axiom Mission 4 (Ax ...

A NASA spacecraft scooped rubble from an asteroid. Here's what was inside

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found ...

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How Protecting Astronauts' Health Advances Earthly Science

NASA’s efforts to protect astronauts from harmful microbes aboard the ISS have led to groundbreaking microbiology advancements. Using HEPA filters, water processing, and continuous monitoring, ...

NASA Alert! Massive 300-foot wide asteroid might hit Earth in...

A recent discovery by NASA showed that a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2024 YR4, can collide on Earth with more than 1% ...

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