potentially playing a key role in the development of life here on Earth.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate and ammonia. Together, ...

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

Discoveries from an asteroid that contain the building blocks of life are making waves in the scientific community, and one ...

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

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

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

Astronomers have found some pretty wild exoplanets. Some are balls of lava the temperature of hell, one is partially made of ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Often dismissed as the poor cousin of the sciences, chemistry has revealed natural laws that illuminate our Universe ...