When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

When you first hear the term “complete protein,” you may just think it’s one of those marketing buzzwords used to make ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism — a novel genomically recoded organism ...

Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid ...

Discover the key differences between amino acids and proteins, and learn when it's most beneficial to consume each to ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By ...

Researchers found 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to make proteins. NASA makes it clear that its findings do not show evidence of extraterrestrial life itself, but that under the ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Samples of asteroid Bennu contain molecules that suggest the "conditions necessary for life" were widespread across the early ...

Synthetic biologists from Yale were able to re-write the genetic code of an organism—a novel genomically recoded organism ...