In a groundbreaking discovery, scientists have detected the building blocks of life in ice outside the Milky Way for the first time. This significant observation was made in the Large Magellanic Cloud ...

There’s certainly nothing living on the asteroid Bennu, an airless, 1,614-ft. rubble pile orbiting the sun about 40.2 million miles from Earth. But that doesn’t mean that Bennu hasn’t all at once ...

Sugars essential for life were found for the first time alongside “space gum” on an asteroid hurtling towards Earth, indicating that our Universe could be teeming with life, according to new research.

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of life in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid. In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks of ...

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This is a colored view of the C-type asteroid 162173 Ryugu, seen by the ONC-T camera on board of Hayabusa2. Filters: vwx date:2018-07-12 08:01 Image level: 2b (Images after hardware correction and ...

Scientists have long queried how the complex molecules needed for life could have formed around the tumultuous and violent environment of the sun in its youth. A family of meteorites called ...

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Scientists detected all five nucleobases -- building blocks of DNA and RNA -- in samples returned from asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. Japanese collaborators detected all five nucleobases ...