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 2020 ... deepening the mystery of why life only uses “left-handed” amino acids. Amino acid molecules ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu ... However, the amino acid samples from Bennu show an even ...

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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023 ... and nicotinic acid (vitamin B 3). "In previous research, uracil and nicotinic acid ...

A big question in the origin of life on Earth is why it is based solely on "left-handed" amino acids. Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical ... version of an amino acid from a meteorite.

"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, ...

Bennu also contains all five amino acids that make up terrestrial genetic material. The NASA mission with the Osiris-Rex probe , which collected samples on Bennu and dropped them over the Earth in ...

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 ...

Scientists discovered thousands of organic molecular compounds in the Bennu samples, including abundant mineral salts, amino acids, nitrogen in the form of ammonia, and all five bases present in ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu ... amino acids used to create proteins and nucleobases. A nucleobase is a nitrogen-containing compound that ...