Nobody knows how life began on Earth, but some tantalizing clues from an asteroid suggest it might not have started here.

In September 2023, the space agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully returned ... store and transmit genetic instructions in DNA and RNA. “Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home ...

RNA, which transmits the instructions contained in genes to ... for another mission to the asteroid Apophis as it skirts by Earth in 2029. “Data from OSIRIS-REx adds major brushstrokes to a picture of ...

"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 ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid Bennu when ... Life on Earth, as we currently understand it, is based on the interplay of DNA, RNA and proteins. DNA serves as the ...

(Courtesy: James Di Loreto, Smithsonian) A sample of asteroid dirt brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission contains amino acids and the nucleobases of RNA and DNA, plus brines that could ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched down on asteroid ... Life on Earth, as we currently understand it, is based on the interplay of DNA, RNA and proteins. DNA serves as the blueprint ...

According to astronomers, there are approximately 200 billion trillion stars in our observable universe — chances are, there's life out there somewhere.

The building blocks of DNA and RNA, essential precursors to life, have been discovered in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by Nasa’s Osiris-REx mission. With AI starting to hit natural limitations ...

Animation of OSIRIS-REx collecting a sample from the surface of Bennu ... It also reports the discovery of the five nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. Some of these compounds have not been observed ...