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

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 ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

Researchers say the asteroid Bennu has the building blocks for life on it. The samples collected and returned to Earth were ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

Although meteorites on Earth come from asteroids ... and the United States (OSIRIS-REx). NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September ...