The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

The complex building blocks of life can form spontaneously in space, a new lab experiment shows.

Ancient evidence suggests a new twist in how we all got here.

In another step toward understanding the origin of Earth’s biological molecules, two independent laboratory experiments have produced amino acids–the building blocks of proteins–by simulating ...

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Attaching amino acids to a hydrophobic organic molecule allows them to self-assemble into rare, knotted structures with ...