NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return samples of Asteroid Bennu to Earth. Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

A sleep-inducing molecule humans use to make proteins was found, along with other amino acids, on an asteroid named Bennu.

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

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

Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile that crosses Earth’s orbit every few years, is turning out to be a kind of cosmic pantry ...

What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you ...

Several sugars have been found on a sample of the asteroid Bennu, which may provide scientists with clues about our early ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...