Scientists found 11 minerals in Bennu samples, including calcite, halite, and sylvite, that form when water with dissolved ...

How can just four nitrogenous bases--adenine, cytosine, guanine, and uracil--possibly code for all 20 amino acids? Thus, early researchers quickly determined that the smallest combination of As ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

REx brought back to Earth 121 grams of material from asteroid Bennu. This is the largest sample ever collected and brought ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

Recent analysis of amino acid prevalence goes back to the theoretical common ancestors of life.

The last universal common ancestor is the single life ... “[T]here is scientific consensus that W was the last of the 20 canonical amino acids to be added to the genetic code,” the scientists ...

The scientists also found tiny crystals of rare salt minerals called halite and sylvite within Bennu's dust particles. These ...

NASA scientists discovered a plethora of precursors to life on the asteroid Bennu, demonstrating the importance of Earthbound ...