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

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing 14 of the 20 essential amino acids for ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

Samples returned from an asteroid contain a surprising abundance of the basic ingredients of life. They were discovered to be ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

Scientists said they didn't find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...