Could a dusty rock hurtling through space hold the recipe for life? NASA’s latest analysis of asteroid Bennu’s pristine ...

Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

Sugars, including glucose and materials for the genetic molecule ribonucleic acid (RNA), have been discovered in samples ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

NASA has unveiled a series of new discoveries that make the possibility of alien life elsewhere in the universe more ...

Scientists analyzing asteroid Bennu samples have discovered sugars essential to life and a unique gum-like substance, offering new insights into early solar system chemistry and the origins of life.

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In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...