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NASA finds building blocks for life in Bennu asteroid sample

NASA's Bennu samples contain life's building blocks, including amino acids and DNA/RNA nucleobases

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's essential ingredients.

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NASA finds building blocks for life in the Bennu asteroid sample

Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last September found molecules, including amino acids, which are essential ingredients of life as we know it.

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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that means

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, named Bennu, was the focus of a very dreamy NASA mission called OSIRIS-REx that launched in 2016.

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The odds of alien life just increased, NASA says after discovering DNA ingredients on an asteroid

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

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NASA says it has discovered DNA ingredients on an asteroid, substantiating the fact that alien life existed

The DNA ingredients discovered on the asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that life-building blocks exist ...

NASA scientists find 'ingredients for life' in asteroid sample

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

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Russian 'Traitor' Caught Red-Handed in Ukraine's Secret Plot, FSB Crushes Kyiv's Sabotage Mission

Russia's FSB has arrested a Russian man accused of carrying out sabotage attacks for Ukraine's intelligence agency. The suspect, trained by Ukraine's SBU, was allegedly promised forged EU documents ...

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Rochester's Righter Shields NASA Space Rocks Clean

Precise curation was necessary to discover that the Bennu asteroid sample contains building blocks of life on Earth.Long ...

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RNA articles from across Nature Portfolio

RNA (ribonucleic acid) is a nucleic acid polymer where the carbohydrate is ribose. RNA is generally single-stranded, as DNA is transcribed by RNA polymerases into mRNA (messenger RNA), which ...

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