Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

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

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

Inside the cell reside many tiny assembly factories and warehouses that gather together all of the proteins and RNAs—which ...

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

“Our findings expand the evidence that prebiotic organic molecules can form within primitive accreting planetary bodies and ...

Scientists discovered that the first 100 base pairs of human genes are unusually prone to mutations, especially during the ...

Inside the cell reside many tiny assembly factories and warehouses that gather together all of the proteins and RNAs-which ...

In one such incident, recent reports claim that asteroid Bennu, a space rock that was orbiting the sun millions of kilometers ...