The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered on the asteroid Bennu, as deatiled in a new study in the journal ...

Objective Metabolic reprogramming plays a critical role in modulating the innate and adaptive immune response, but its role ...

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

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

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

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

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

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

Scientists have discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu, including key amino acids and the ...