NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

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

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

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.

Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life.

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...

This mineral-rich asteroid might have carried the seeds of life. Planetary scientists have discovered organic matter ...

Scientists say the “building blocks for life” have been found inside the rubble of a 500-metre-wide asteroid in a breakthrough study. The “potentially hazardous” asteroid, called Bennu, is around ...

RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid polymer where the carbohydrate is ribose. RNA is generally single-stranded, as DNA is transcribed by RNA polymerases into mRNA (messenger RNA), which is ...

RNA sequencing refers to techniques used to determine the sequence of RNA molecules. It includes high-throughput shotgun sequencing of cDNA molecules obtained by reverse transcription from RNA ...

The new group, designated CGG-z4, hosts two optically dark star-forming ... Teams with NASA are gaining momentum as work progresses toward future lunar missions for the benefit of humanity as ...