So, not only did the asteroid carry the basic elements for life, it also had a watery environment to help synthesize them into complex ingredients — like the DNA nucleobases that the NASA team ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

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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, ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured the rare image of NGC 602, which is a star cluster that lies on the outskirts of the Small Magellanic Cloud, one of the closest galaxies to the Milky Way.

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's essential ingredients. NASA's Bennu asteroid samples reveal building blocks ...

An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link NASA probed an asteroid and found an ancient repository of ingredients for life. The findings, published in two papers in the journals Nature ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...