Could a dusty rock hurtling through space hold the recipe for life? NASA’s latest analysis of asteroid Bennu’s pristine ...

Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

Asteroid Bennu was already a time capsule from the dawn of the Solar System, but the first detailed look at its returned ...

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Sugars, including glucose and materials for the genetic molecule ribonucleic acid (RNA), have been discovered in samples collected from the asteroid Bennu, which is estimated to have formed 4.5 billio ...

It’s been hypothesized for decades that life on Earth may not have been as “homegrown” as one might think and now, we’re ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

The sugar ribose is more quickly phosphorylated compared to other sugars with the same chemical formula but a different shape. This selective phosphorylation could explain how ribose became the sugar ...

In living organisms today, complex molecules like RNA and DNA are constructed with the help of enzymes. So how did these molecules form before life (and enzymes) existed? Why did some molecules end up ...