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

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.

Now, new research has revealed the asteroid contains many of the chemical building blocks of life ... that make up the genetic code in DNA and RNA. “These organic molecules have all been ...

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

As indivisible units of life, the cells of all organisms consist of four fundamental macromolecular components: nucleic acids (including DNA and RNA ... the molecular 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 ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

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 ...