There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

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

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

"It was likely a key chemical building block through the formation of amino acids and nucleobases and, again, the genetic components of DNA and RNA." Perhaps Fox summed it up best: "The OSIRIS REx ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...