There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

A mission called OSIRIS-REx landed on an asteroid named Bennu in ... and the five nucleobases for DNA and RNA. As asteroids crash into worlds across the galaxy, "they're essentially seeding ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Japanese collaborators detected all five ...

Researchers found that the fragments harbored all five nucleobases — the “letters” that comprise DNA and RNA — as well ... “NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission already is rewriting the textbook ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample ... molecules required for building DNA and RNA, supporting the theory that asteroids could have brought the building blocks of life ...

TL;DR: NASA's OSIRIS-REx space probe delivered samples from asteroid ... Earth uses to transmit genetic instructions within DNA and RNA.

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced on Wednesday.

"I'm excited to announce that the OSIRIS-REx team discovered that Bennu contains ... and the five nucleobases for DNA and RNA. As asteroids crash into worlds across the galaxy, "they're ...

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 ...

"It was likely a key chemical building block through the formation of amino acids and nucleobases and, again, the genetic components of DNA and RNA." Perhaps Fox summed it up best: "The OSIRIS REx ...