When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned its samples from the asteroid Bennu in late 2023, it revealed a surprising find: ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

Researchers are working in labs to recreate the essential ingredients for life to emerge around hydrothermal vents. The ...

A sleep-inducing molecule humans use to make proteins was found, along with other amino acids, on an asteroid named Bennu.

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

The mysterious interstellar object 3I/ATLAS may be seeding the worlds of this solar system with the early stages of life, new ...

The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array detected significant amounts of methanol and hydrogen cyanide in ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed that the asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life, including sugar and amino acids, suggesting that similar asteroids are common in the solar system ...

NASA announced the discovery of "life's ingredients" from samples of the ancient asteroid Bennu, collected by its OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft. The latest discoveries include sugars that are essential for ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu in 2023—and these tiny grains are turning out to be a treasure chest of clues about how the solar system formed and how ...