The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

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

Scientists poring over a sample brought back from the asteroid Bennu have detected amino acids and complex mineral compounds, ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Amino acids, often referred to as the building blocks ... Tryptophan is necessary for the production of serotonin, a chemical that acts as a neurotransmitter in your body. Serotonin is an ...

Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

In other words, Bennu's samples provide further evidence that life's building blocks formed early in the solar system and ...

在国家自然科学基金项目（批准号：22090050，22325701）等资助下，北京大学刘涛教授与中国地质大学（武汉）娄筱叮教授合作，在基于人造荧光蛋白的生物传感器构建方面取得新进展。研究成果以“利用遗传编码的分子转子型氨基酸构建人造荧光蛋白与生物传感 ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's ...