NASA probed an asteroid and found an ancient ... and the five nucleobases for DNA and RNA. As asteroids crash into worlds across the galaxy, "they're essentially seeding these planets with the ...

Instead, early RNA molecules could have been more versatile ... Jason Dworkin, a senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of the study, emphasized that these findings ...

But real lightning would have struck infrequently—and mostly in open ocean, where organic compounds would have quickly ...

Many biological molecules are chiral, meaning they exist in two forms that are mirror images of each other, like left and ...

All five nucleobases that make up DNA and RNA have now been detected in meteorite samples ... for early life,” study coauthor Daniel Glavin, an astrobiologist at NASA, which supplied one of three ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security-Regolith Explorer) mission has detected amino acids in the largest asteroid sample ever collected in space, ...

Ibrahim Cissé spent hours as a child taking apart and trying to rebuild electronics. Other times, he would reenact NASA space shuttle liftoffs, tipping a chair backward onto the floor and then ...

Average telomere length in all Inspiration4 civilian crew members increased during spaceflight, similar to observations from the NASA Twins Study. Also, RNA-seq data revealed significantly ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission successfully touched ... Life on Earth, as we currently understand it, is based on the interplay of DNA, RNA and proteins. DNA serves as the blueprint of life ...