Over the last 12 months, scientists from London’s Natural History Museum have been busy collecting, studying and cataloguing the extraordinary diversity of life on Earth. Museum scientists have given ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they ...

International team finds glucose and ribose in samples from asteroid Bennu, marking first glucose discovery in space ...

One key component might be RNA, a molecular cousin of DNA found in every form of life on Earth, and now scientists say they have shown how it could have formed on our planet eons ago. But not everyone ...

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx sample collection event at Asteroid Bennu saw the spacecraft plunge its arm into the surface. Find out how ...

A sleep-inducing molecule humans use to make proteins was found, along with other amino acids, on an asteroid named Bennu.

The nitrogen in the gum was found to be in nitrogen heterocycles, which are the building blocks of nucleobases in DNA and RNA ...

Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

Learn about the molecules and materials found in samples of asteroid Bennu, including sugars, space gum, and an abundance of ...

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is officially confirmed for NCMA Nexus Mission Days, bringing direct insight from the agency driving some of the most ambitious missions in ...

What is “gum”? Most people have probably never considered this question, and might answer something like a chewy material you ...