Frank Brenker. “This means that Bennu’s parent body had some known building blocks for biomolecules, water and – at least for a certain time – energy to keep the water liquid.” ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...

It took two years for NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe to return from asteroid Bennu before dropping off a small capsule as it flew past Earth, which was then recovered in the desert of the U.S. state of ...

Proteins and nucleic acids are the central building blocks of life in all organisms. These biomolecules are made up of many ...

In such cases, one should expect metabolic substitution with the reporter-modified building block to be incomplete. The fraction of biomolecules labeled with the chemical reporter may be an ...

Asteroid Bennu’s dust reveals amino acid precursors and ancient water traces, fueling hopes that Saturn’s moon Enceladus and other icy worlds might harbor life.

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