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

According to the study in Nature Astronom y, the team also found 14 of the 20 amino acids present in Earth-bound life in the Bennu sample. In addition, Bennu contains all five of the nucleotide ...

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: ...

By analysing the chemical fingerprints of zinc in meteorites, scientists have determined that 'unmelted' asteroids played a critical role in delivering these vital compounds to our planet.Volatiles, ...

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 ...

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 ...

The star stuff of life After launching, SPHEREx will spend just over two years orbiting Earth from 404 miles (650 kilometers) overhead, collecting data on more than 450 million galaxies.