A big question in the origin of life on Earth is why it is based solely on "left-handed" amino acids. Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. When NASA launched a ...
Recent findings from researchers at UCLA and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center are shaking up our understanding of life’s ...
GREENBELT, Md. — Imagine a world where proteins could be built with mirror-image molecules, just like your left and right ...
An artist's rendering depicts the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft contacting the asteroid Bennu with the Touch-and-Go Sample Arm Mechanism. In samples taken from a distant asteroid, scientists have discovered a ...
TEMPLE, Texas — New samples from an asteroid could suggest that the conditions for life are not unique to Earth, according to NASA. NASA stated that studies of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu that ...
Tim McCoy, right, and Cari Corrigan, meteorite researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, look at images of asteroid Bennu samples taken by a scanning electron microscope.
How deep will future landers to Jupiter’s moon, Europa, and Saturn’s moon, Enceladus have to dig to find organic molecules aka the building blocks of life? This is what a recent study published in ...
A Curiosity rover selfie from the Martian surface (created by images captured by a camera on its robotic arm and then stitched together). NASA's Curiosity rover made a compelling find on Mars' ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...
A diagram of left-handed and right-handed versions of the amino acid isovaline, found in the Murchison meteorite. The mystery of why life uses molecules with specific orientations has deepened with a ...
Berkeley – The same cutting-edge technology that speeded sequencing of the human genome could, by the end of the decade, tell us once and for all whether life ever existed on Mars, according to a ...
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