The discovery supports the theory that asteroids seeded life on Earth.
NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample ...
NASA is tracking a truck-sized asteroid which is set to hurtle by Earth today at many times the velocity of a speeding bullet ...
Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...
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 ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...