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

Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, upending previously ...

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 ...

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

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.

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

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.” ...

“These samples from Bennu are an incredible discovery, showing that the building blocks of life were widespread ... genetic instructions in more complex biomolecules like DNA and RNA.

It's important to note that researchers are likely at least 10 to 30 years away from creating mirror bacteria. On the ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft mission has delivered a sample of the asteroid Bennu to Earth and it has been found to contain ...