The building blocks of life could have been delivered to Ceres by one or more space rocks from the outer asteroid belt.

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

Ceres, the largest object in the asteroid belt, holds fascinating clues about the origins of organic molecules in ou.

The organic material found in a few areas on the surface of dwarf planet Ceres is probably of exogenic origin. Impacting ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

"The detection of these key building blocks of life in the Bennu samples supports the theory that asteroids and their fragments seeded the early Earth with the raw ingredients that led to the ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the 'basic building blocks' for life, shedding new light ...