When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Amino acids are the building blocks that make up ... which limits scientists’ ability to study the biology of extinct organisms compared to modern ones, whose proteins and DNA can be sequenced.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Evolution has been fine-tuning life at the molecular level for billions of years. Proteins, the fundamental building blocks of life, have evolved through this process to perform various biological ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

Two science teams pored over samples from the B-type asteroid Bennu, finding chemicals linked to the beginnings of life and ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has provided groundbreaking insights into the early solar system and the potential origins of life.