THE key ingredients for life may be scattered across the universe in more places than first thought, according to a new study ...

Key materials for life which were previously only found on Earth were discovered circling a baby star, and now boffins think ...

The most significant molecules found are ethylene glycol and glyconitrize—both of which are ingredients for compounds in DNA ...

Why we, so far, only see life on Earth and not elsewhere, that’s the truly tantalizing question.” For more information on the OSIRIS-REx mission, visit this link. More from 6 News: ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ingredients were mingling with water almost right from the start. "That's ...

This raises questions about how and why life on Earth "turned left" in its amino acid preference. NASA launched the OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu in 2016 to gain insights into the early ...

One of these lumps became the asteroid Bennu whose minerals, recently returned to Earth by the US robot space probe OSIRIS-REx, have now been found to contain rich levels of complex chemicals that are ...

The moon’s icy phosphate concentration was actually “enriched compared to Earth’s oceans by a factor of 1,000 or so,” study co-author Frank Postberg told The New York Times.

In that time, chemical reactions with Earth’s atmosphere can alter meteorites even more. By traveling to Bennu, NASA researchers reasoned, a probe could gather pristine material.

NASA successfully brought the samples to Earth’s surface and—after some difficulties — opened the canister containing the rocky bits. An artist’s impression of OSIRIS-REx digging into Bennu.