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

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in ... after Glavin and Dworkin’s team discovered that the amino acids in the Bennu sample are a mix of ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

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 ...

"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, ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

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 ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

The researchers boiled rocks and dust from Bennu in water and acid to extract organic compounds, then used mass spectrometry to identify the molecules, including 14 of the 20 amino acids that life ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

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 ...