The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...
Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...