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

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered new details about how the human genome produces instructions for creating ...

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

CINCINNATI (WKRC) - A recent discovery indicates that the chemical building blocks necessary for life to form on Earth were actually "extraterrestrial in origin," according to scientists.

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

By Sage Rohrbach A mosaic image of the Bennu Asteriod, created using pictures from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx satellite that was near the asteroid for over two years. Courtesy of NASA via Wikimedia ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

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known as messenger RNA (mRNA), functions as the intermediate ‘messenger’ that carries information from DNA to make proteins — the basic building blocks of cellular components. mRNA damage ...

known as messenger RNA (mRNA), functions as the intermediate 'messenger' that carries information from DNA to make proteins - the basic building blocks of cellular components. DNA damage is ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

The building blocks for organic matter have been discovered ... and uracil — that are necessary to build DNA and RNA. Finally they found traces of important organic compounds like xanthine ...