Researchers have found more than 20 different amino acids, the building blocks of life, in soil samples Japan’s Hayabusa 2 space probe brought back from the asteroid Ryugu, according to sources.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

Study indicates that Bennu’s parent asteroid developed or accumulated material from a reservoir in the outer solar system ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five ...

On Earth, amino acids in living organisms predominantly have a ‘left-handed ... to the asteroids Itokawa and Ryugu. Special delivery! Biggest-ever haul of asteroid dust and rock returns to Earth ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu contain the building blocks of life as we know it. Scientists are enthusiastic.

Some of life's 20 amino acids have even been found in JAXA's samples of Ryugu. In fact, on the topic of Ryugu samples, scientists also found ammonia there (albeit not quite the heaping amounts ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...

Asteroid Bennu seems to have come from a long-lost world on the fringes of the solar system, where saltwater pooled and dried ...