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

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.

The material collected from Ryugu has already yielded groundbreaking insights. Scientists discovered traces of amino acids-the fundamental building blocks of life-within the samples, confirming ...

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

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

Samples taken from the space-returned piece of asteroid Ryugu were collected and prepared under strict anti-contamination controls. Inside the cleanest of clean rooms, a tiny particle was ...

Further research into the amino acids should help scientists determine if those in the Ryugu sample are structurally similar to the large majority of amino acids found in life forms on Earth.

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

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 ...