Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...

The universe might have far more amino acids lying around than we realized, which gives life itself far more chances to begin.

Did the ingredients for life as we know it exist in the early solar system? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academ | Space ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Scientists studying dust and rock from asteroid Bennu say they are holding something close to a time capsule from before ...

Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.

Scientists have shown that the building blocks of proteins can form naturally in deep space. This means the raw ingredients for life may exist long before planets are formed.

In A Nutshell Ancient frozen chemistry: New analysis of pristine samples from asteroid Bennu suggests its amino acids formed ...

Using new technology at the telescope and in laboratories, researchers have discovered an important pair of prebiotic molecules in interstellar space. The discoveries indicate that some basic ...