Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

Amino acids are organic compounds that serve as the fundamental building blocks of proteins. They play a crucial role in the structure, function, and regulation of the body's tissues and organs. Amino ...

In 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples of the 4.6-billion-year-old asteroid Bennu to Earth. Upon examining them, scientists discovered that the asteroid – which existed when the Solar ...

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Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Life runs on instructions you never see. Every cell reads DNA, turns that message into RNA, and then builds proteins that ...

Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.

Scientists studying material from the asteroid Bennu have uncovered new clues about how some of life’s most basic ingredients may have formed long before Earth existed. The findings suggest that amino ...