Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic 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 ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...