A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.

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

Defining the molecular building blocks of life provides a conceptual framework for biology that has the potential to enhance education and research by promoting the integration of knowledge.

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The mission highlights the widespread potential for life’s building blocks across the solar system ... to store and transmit genetic instructions in more complex terrestrial biomolecules, such as DNA ...

Listen to Story The samples were retrieved by Nasa's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history Two analyses of the samples were published Scientists have ...

NASA has presented rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu which exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life.

Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life. “Finding the ingredients to life is always very interesting,” said Jason Dworkin, ...

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

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.” ...

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