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 ...

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

Scientists have since been analyzing these samples to uncover their chemical composition. Bennu is classed as a near-Earth asteroid, meaning that it makes its closest approach to Earth every six ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission. It's a win for alien life.

A 17.75 mg sample was processed and analyzed for N-heterocycles—organic molecules with a ring structure ... or the Bennu asteroid was exposed to a cold molecular cloud environment where ...

Overall, they write, a Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” reducing land photosynthesis by 36 percent and marine photosynthesis by 25 percent. That would in ...

The asteroid Bennu has been at the centre of scientific discussions recently, especially after researchers analysed surface samples collected by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission. While much of the ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before ... the mineral grains' exact structure and determining their chemical composition at the same time.

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

A 17.75 mg sample was processed and analyzed for N-heterocycles—organic molecules with a ring structure containing carbon ... bodies or formation pathways, or the Bennu asteroid was exposed to a cold ...

A 17.75 mg sample was processed and analyzed for N-heterocycles -- organic molecules with a ring structure ... or the Bennu asteroid was exposed to a cold molecular cloud environment where ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by Nasa from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks ... that play indispensable roles in the structure, function and regulation of living ...