All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...
NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...