Chemotaxis, a process for chemically inducing movement in an organism, may be a crucial tool in the search for life on Mars.

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

The study of asteroid samples is a highly lucrative area of research and one of the best ways to determine how the Solar System came to be. Given that asteroids are leftover material from the ...

Scientists have previously detected organic materials, amino acids, even nucleobases, in samples of meteorites, such as the Murchison meteorite that fell in Australia in 1969 or in samples from the ...

This artist’s concept shows NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft descending towards asteroid Bennu to collect a sample of the asteroid’s surface. NASA/Goddard ...

nitrogen and ammonia than samples from the asteroid Ryugu and most meteorites. "We detected amino acids (including 14 of the 20 used in terrestrial biology), amines, formaldehyde, carboxylic acids ...

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

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 ...

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 ...