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

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

NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

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

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...

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

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life in the solar system.