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

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu, a large near-Earth asteroid that NASA ranks as one of the biggest potential impact threats we know ...

Dust and rocks from Bennu contained all five nucleobases—molecules that make up DNA and RNA—and 14 of the 20 amino acids in proteins. These organic molecules had been found in other asteroids. But ...

reveal that Bennu contains the essential building blocks of life, including amino acids and nucleobases—key components of proteins, DNA, and RNA. This discovery suggests that the conditions ...