By Alimat Aliyeva Japanese scientists from Kyoto University have discovered evidence of salt minerals on the asteroid R ...

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were all five of the basic building block for life — Guanine, Cytosine, Adenine, ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

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

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission from a near-Earth asteroid named Bennu.

The brine contains compounds that have never been previously observed in asteroid samples, including compounds of sodium carbonate ... or 121.6 grams), meaning that scientists have plenty to ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-metre-wide asteroid 320 million kilometres from Earth.

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly ... One of these is sodium carbonate, which we find here on Earth in a white powdery form after salty lakes like ...

Scientists were thrilled when they realized that the capsule contained double the expected cache of material, which amounted to about 120 grams ... also known as sodium carbonate or soda ash ...

When NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft touched down on asteroid Bennu in 2020, it captured over 122 grams of ancient material ... as indicated by sodium carbonate detected in their plumes and ...