In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in 2020 ... but although chains of nucleobases are the molecular skeleton of RNA and DNA, neither nucleic ...

as well as all five nucleobases that life on Earth uses to store and transmit genetic instructions in DNA and RNA. “Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar system, and we need to be prepared for what could come. A first-of-its ...

A new study in the journal Nature throws a new theory into the fray. Analyzing a wealth of DNA collected from fossilized human bones, the researchers found that the first Indo-European speakers ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu, a large near-Earth ... the key components of both DNA and RNA. These five nucleotide bases ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu, a large near-Earth asteroid that NASA ranks as one of the biggest potential impact threats we know ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission confirmed that asteroid Bennu harbored life’s building blocks, including amino acids, DNA-related molecules ... rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) ...

The researchers did not find evidence of actual DNA or RNA in the samples. “The suite of simple protein amino acids and nucleobases that were found in Bennu are a long way from anything that ...

Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens ... which partly make up the backbone of DNA, are always right-handed, giving the double helix its signature twist to the right.

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...

NASA's Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces) of dust and pebbles from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, delivering the sample canister to the Utah desert in 2023 before swooping off ...