Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our Universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

NASA revealed that scientists discovered sugars that are “essential” to life and a “gum-like” substance on the space rock Bennu ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, according to research that provides some of the best ...

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of life in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid. In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks of ...

Life on Earth may have originated somewhere else. Indeed, new research points to the “building blocks of life” as having “extraterrestrial origins.” CNN reports how new research from NASA’s Goddard ...

The building blocks of life have been found on an alien asteroid, scientists have said. Samples taken by Nasa from the asteroid Bennu have not only the ingredients required to life but also show the ...

Ima Hosseinzadeh, Ph.D. student at William & Mary’s Batten School of Coastal & Marine Sciences at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS), may be a long way from her native Iran, but in the ...

In a star system far, far away—well, about 1,300 light-years from here—a young star just spilled the chemical tea on the origins of life. V883 Orionis, a fiery infant star surrounded by a swirling ...

Starlight and stardust are not enough to drive the powerful winds of giant stars, transporting the building blocks of life ...