When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...
Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.
Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
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