Scientists have found special chemical compounds necessary for the existence of life in samples collected from asteroid Bennu ... building blocks that make up RNA and DNA. Professor Sara Russell ...

Cell-free RNA (cfRNA) circulating in the bloodstream originates from the cell itself, either through active secretion or via apoptosis and necrosis. The analysis of cfRNA in plasma could serve as ...

To this day, remnants of the historic Apollo lunar missions exist on the moon; the OSIRIS-REx probe recently placed its robotic fingerprint on a clumpy asteroid called Bennu; multiple rovers have ...

Samples from the asteroids Ryugu and Bennu, which were brought back to Earth, contained prebiotic molecules, for example. “This work shows that the basic ingredients for life’s chemistry could have ...

A NASA spacecraft is traveling to the most mysterious asteroids in the solar system. On the way there, it snapped images of the curious, elongated asteroid dubbed "Donaldjohanson." On April 20 ...

NASA’s mission, in a way, is already in progress. The agency’s OSIRIS-REx mission—having successfully visited the asteroid Bennu in 2020 and returning a sample three years later—has now ...