Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

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

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...