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 ...

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

Retired astronaut and current Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.) celebrated NASA ’s “pretty exciting” announcement on Thursday after ...

Researchers at Stockholm University carefully ground up bits of muscle and other tissue from Yuka and nine other woolly mammoths, then used special chemical treatments to pull out any remaining RNA ...

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

The universal features that define genomic regions acting as replication origins remain unclear. In this study, we mapped a set of origins in Trypanosoma brucei using stranded short nascent strand ...

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

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A new analysis of samples returned from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has revealed a rich collection of organic molecules, ...

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