“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life.” NASA Goddard “These grains of rock have shown that the building blocks of life and the conditions for making them existed on Bennu ...

Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission.

But with that out of the way, personnel like Jason Dworkin, Science and Exploration Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, could finally open the return capsule and send the samples ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...