One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...
The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...
They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...
Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the ...
Earth has just dropped, giving fans an exciting first look at the Xenomorph and a mysterious spaceship crash-landing on Earth.