Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

Earth is home to some truly bizarre and breathtaking landscapes — here are 20 that look straight out of an alien world.

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...

In the samples from the asteroid Bennu, scientists discovered numerous organic compounds, including key amino acids, as well ...

“Peptides are small chains of amino acids, which are the basic components that make up the proteins found naturally in your ...

Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe dropped off samples of asteroid Bennu in 2023, and now those samples have been analyzed by researchers for their contents.

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...