When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

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 ...

This image, taken by NASA's Osiris-Rex probe in December 2018, shows the asteroid Bennu. Scientists have identified 14 of the 20 amino acids used by terrestrial life, as well as the five nucleic acid ...

This raises questions about how and why life on Earth "turned left" in its amino acid preference. NASA launched the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu in 2016 to gain insights into the early ...

The U.S. space agency's robotic OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2020 collected the ... Present in the samples were 14 of the 20 organic compounds called amino acids that are used to make proteins ...

The samples from asteroid Bennu were delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission in 2023 ... Fourteen of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to build proteins were discovered within ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently ... blocks” that would allow life to develop. Of the 20 amino acids in proteins made by life on Earth to form proteins ...