The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building ...

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

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

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

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Discover the fascinating findings from asteroid Bennu: pristine salt minerals reveal the presence of liquid water in the ...

Rock and dust samples brought back from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu contain organic matter, including amino acids and all ...

Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.

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

Joint Press Release by Hokkaido University, Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology (JAMSTEC), Kyushu University ...