One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.
The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar ...