The asteroid, dubbed 2024 YR4, was detected by NASA's Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System on Dec. 27, 2024.
Analyzing a sample from an asteroid named Bennu reveals the chemicals necessary to form DNA and RNA.
A newly discovered asteroid has a tiny chance of smacking Earth in 2032, space agency officials said Wednesday. Scientists ...
In samples NASA brought back from the asteroid Bennu, scientists have discovered of organic compounds, including key building ...
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
Discoveries from an asteroid that contain the building blocks of life are making waves in the scientific community, and one ...
Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
Some amino acids can be built in two ways that mirror each other, like a pair of right and left hands. Life on Earth uses the ...
The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 billion years ago. The presence of evaporites means that sodium-rich water once ...
Scientists said they didn’t find evidence of life on Bennu, but they did find evidence of the building blocks of life.
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