NASA’s astonishing find on asteroid Bennu breathes sweet, new life into age-old scientific question

The space agency has reportedly discovered life-giving essential sugars on the asteroid Bennu, a 500-meter-wide rock hurtling ...
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Scientists say Bennu samples hold a trove of life-building ingredients

When a capsule of asteroid dust from Bennu parachuted into the Utah desert, scientists hoped it might carry clues to how ...
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Scientists say asteroid Bennu holds all key elements for life

Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile roughly the height of the Empire State Building, has turned out to be a chemical treasure ...

Asteroid hurtling toward Earth found to be teeming with building blocks of life: researchers

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Maggots' DNA may 'revolutionize death investigations,' researchers say

By looking at maggots’ genes and metabolic changes, investigators can better predict time of death, the researchers said.
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NASA Finds the Building Blocks of DNA in Samples From Distant Asteroid, But Also… Gum

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...