An ancient asteroid older than Earth itself has reignited debate over whether life began in space. NASA's Bennu discovery ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...

The Hayabusa2 spacecraft collected the samples in February 2019, and delivered them to Earth in December 2020Credit: EPA The Japanese Space Agency's (JAXA) Hayabusa2 spacecraft retrieved the samples ...

How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards answering this query. The US space agency has discovered essential sugars on ...

Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building - ‘We’re looking at ...

Space mining tech and robotic prospecting are unlocking extraterrestrial resources, reshaping future energy, manufacturing, ...

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Last year, stunned researchers found two organic compounds that are essential for living organisms in samples of the distant asteroid HOPES of finding traces of alien life in the universe have been ...

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the critical ...