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

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

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

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

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

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.

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

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 ...

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NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.