Our DNA is constantly under threat — from cell division errors to external factors like sunlight and smoking. Fortunately, ...

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 ...

Part 2: RNA sequencing: The second part of BEST will include a never-before-attempted experiment in space: sequencing of RNA. While DNA has already been successfully sequenced multiple times on ...

According to NASA, Bennu is about one-third of a mile ... Earth uses to store and transmit genetic instructions in DNA and RNA. “Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s ...

Samples contain all five nucleobases of DNA and RNA, supporting theory that asteroids may have seeded Earth with life's essential ingredients. NASA's Bennu asteroid samples reveal building blocks ...

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 ...

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 ...

Samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the asteroid Bennu had organic molecules and minerals and possibly salty water and other life ingredients.

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 ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found ingredients for DNA and RNA on the asteroid Bennu. The discovery shows asteroids could seed planets with the precursors for life. It's also more evidence that life ...