Tomorrow night is the longest night of the year with the December solstice that officially marks the beginning of the season ...

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

When NASA brought home pieces of the asteroid Bennu, scientists hoped the samples might help answer some long-standing questions about how life got its start. They’ve now taken a closer look, and the ...

This gum-like material — never seen before in space — was likely formed in the early days of the Solar System, as Bennu’s parent asteroid warmed. Once soft and flexible, but since hardened, the ...

Talk about a sugar rush! NASA may have just come a little closer to cracking one of science’s most enduring mysteries — how life on Earth got started. The space agency has reportedly discovered ...

Researchers discovered sugars essential for biology, including glucose, in the asteroid material for the first time. A strange, pliable substance nicknamed "space gum" was also found, which could have ...

New research announced by NASA on Tuesday details a bevy of exciting discoveries from asteroid dust that could provide clues to how life developed in our neck of the cosmos, including the sugars ...

Samples taken from the asteroid Bennu are continuing to shed light on the origins of the solar system. Scientists have been studying the samples since NASA's Osiris-REx spacecraft carried them back to ...

Scientists analyzing asteroid Bennu samples have discovered sugars essential to life and a unique gum-like substance, offering new insights into early solar system chemistry and the origins of life.

A new analysis of samples delivered by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security–Regolith Explorer) spacecraft from asteroid Bennu has revealed the ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar system and the origins of life. As part of the ongoing study of pristine ...