How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards ...

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

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

The Oxford Student discusses a potential new gene therapy that shows promise in treating Huntington's disease.

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

The DNA inside our cells is constantly being damaged, and one of the worst kinds of damage is a double-strand break—when both sides of ...

MEMPHIS, Tenn. – December 3, 2025) Fusion oncoproteins arise when a gene fuses with another gene and acquires new abilities.

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the critical ...

As per the official reports, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission first collected samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

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