Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Recent studies of asteroid Bennu samples, returned to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission, have revealed surprising compounds that could inform our understanding of the early solar system and the ...
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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