The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu ... Nucleobases have also been identified in the Bennu sample, but although chains of nucleobases are the molecular skeleton of RNA ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth from outer space.

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission returned 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023 ... molecules required for building DNA and RNA, supporting the theory that asteroids ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned ... 121.6 grams of sample from asteroid (101955) Bennu in September 2023 -- the largest sample ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 Bennu after the ... instructions in RNA and DNA, including ...

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 ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

In addition to the 14 biological amino acids, the samples from Bennu also contained 19 more non-biological amino acids, as well as the five nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. The team also ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best evidence to date that such ...