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

"Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu"), by international authors, analysed the samples to reveal thousands of organic molecular compounds, ...

This figure illustrates key molecules and minerals discovered in samples of near-Earth asteroid (101955) Bennu ... while the lower left depicts amino acids, the building blocks of proteins. The Bennu ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 ... amino acids like the ones discovered in the Bennu sample into ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu ... even more profound. The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential ...

Samples brought back to Earth from asteroid "Bennu" in 2023 have been found to contain crucial building blocks for life—including amino acids and all five DNA and RNA nucleobases. The findings ...

When amino acids link up into long chains ... Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu. Nat Astron, published online January 29, 2025; doi: ...