NASA scientists studying rocks from asteroid Bennu found a perplexing mix of amino acids that deepens a molecular mystery on Earth.

Scientists have long wondered why life exclusively uses left-handed amino acids, and a groundbreaking NASA study has just ...

For example, DNA and RNA, the molecules that encode genetic information, contain sugars that are always “right-handed.”Similarly, the amino acids that make up proteins are predominantly ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building blocks of life like amino acids.

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the ... There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now ...

The research published in Nature Astronomy by NASA’s scientists revealed the Bennu asteroid sample contained 14 of the 20 amino acids used to make proteins by life on Earth, including the five ...

NASA's $800 million OSIRIS-Rex mission, short for Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security Regolith Explorer, launched in 2016.The robotic spacecraft completed its 4 ...

TEMPLE, Texas — New samples from an asteroid could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to Earth, according to NASA. NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu ...

The asteroid Bennu, visited by a NASA robotic probe five years ago, contained many of the basic building blocks for life as we know it, including amino acids, according to long-awaited research ...

A NASA experiment suggests that if these oceans support life, signatures of that life in the form of organic molecules (e.g. amino acids, nucleic acids, etc.) could survive just under the surface ...

Jan. 29 (UPI) --Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday. The samples were gathered by NASA's ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building blocks of life like amino acids.