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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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

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Now, new research has revealed the asteroid contains many of the chemical building blocks of life, such as amino acids and components found in DNA, said Dr. Daniel P. Glavin, senior scientist for ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

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Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

The asteroid Bennu contains a lot of organic molecules, including many essential building blocks of life, according to a ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

So that’s actually very exciting. Just to be clear, we’re not finding any evidence for biology on asteroid Bennu. We’re seeing the building blocks of life, not life itself. Now, that being said, we ...