All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

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

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous ...

Phosphorus is the structural backbone of the phosphate nucleotides in DNA and RNA, Natalie Hinkel, a planetary astrophysicist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, told me via email.

NASA’s Perseverance rover is making history by collecting handpicked Martian samples for future return to Earth. Scientists are eager to study these specimens to unlock secrets about Mars’ ancient ...

This valuable study presents a mouse gastruloid model that can be used to generate hematopoietic progenitors as well as leukemic cells. However, in its current form, the manuscript is inadequate ...

A new paper released today documents the first soil, airfall dust, and rock fragment samples collected by NASA for return ...

phosphate is one of the essential building blocks – along with sugar – of the single and double helix that make up RNA and DNA," McCoy said. "Without a phosphate-rich system, these complex ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, which landed in Utah's west desert in September 2023, could suggest rocks carrying an ...

AF6 denotes afadin, GAP GTPase-activating protein, GEF guanine exchange factor, MEK mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase, MT mutant, Pi inorganic phosphate, P13K phosphoinositide 3-kinase ...