Scientists from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission recently delivered remarkable findings about asteroid 101955 ... amino acids like the ones discovered in the Bennu sample into ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu ... even more profound. The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential ...

The 120 g of material came from the near-Earth asteroid 101955 Bennu, which OSIRIS-REx visited in ... after Glavin and Dworkin’s team discovered that the amino acids in the Bennu sample are a mix of ...

When amino acids link up into long chains ... “Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu” by Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, Conel M. O’D.

This spacecraft rendezvoused with asteroid (101955) Bennu on December 3rd ... were 14 of the 20 amino acids life on Earth uses to make up protein cells. They also detected five nucleobases ...

The researchers boiled rocks and dust from Bennu in water and acid to extract organic compounds, then used mass spectrometry to identify the molecules, including 14 of the 20 amino acids that life ...

In addition to the 14 biological amino acids, the samples from Bennu also contained 19 more non-biological amino acids, as well as the five nucleobases that make up RNA and DNA. The team also ...

In 2018, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission reached asteroid 101955 Bennu. Two years later, the spacecraft snagged a sample of its surface, which has since been returned to Earth. Now, astronomers are ...

Secured inside that delivery was over 120 grams of material collected directly from 101955 Bennu, a large near-Earth asteroid that NASA ranks as one of the biggest potential impact threats we know ...

A big question in the origin of life on Earth is why it is based solely on "left-handed" amino acids. Studies on asteroid Bennu's chemical building blocks deepens the mystery. Credit: Christoph ...