Remember when Japan sent a spacecraft to an asteroid 180 million miles away to scoop some dirt off the surface? Six years on ...

A new study reveals all five fundamental nucleobases—the molecular "letters" of life—have been detected in samples from the ...

JAXA samples reveal that asteroid Ryugu has a complete set of nucleobases, the building blocks of DNA.

The asteroid Ryugu, millions of miles away from Earth, might not look that exciting. But on it, we now know, lie some of the ...

Scientists examining dust from an asteroid have discovered all the essential building blocks necessary to create life on ...

Researchers are still studying samples of Ryugu collected by the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency from its Hayabusa2 mission. After the first papers focused on the composition ...

Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). A tiny stash of asteroid dust may help answer one of science’s oldest questions ...

Organic molecules delivered from extraterrestrial materials may have played a key role in supplying building blocks for life ...

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Scientists analysing dust from an asteroid have found all the key building blocks needed to create us and all other life on ...

The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.

Water is considered the basic building block for life as we know it. An extended water history on Mars widens the window of ...