A diagram of a left-handed and right-handed version of an amino acid from a meteorite. Credit: NASA illustration Some scientists considering the implications of this problem have expressed ...

Star would be the first private mission to another planet and the first in over 30 years to directly measure Venus’s clouds.

Dworkin is the project scientist for NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission ... Afterward, they measured which type of amino acid each ribozyme preferred. To make it clear, ribozymes are like tiny tools ...

Titan's frigid lakes of methane have been a hotspot for speculation about life as we don't know it ever since NASA ... amino acids and lipids — can float around and do chemistry in pure sulfuric ...

Researchers found 14 of the 20 amino acids that life on Earth uses to make proteins. NASA makes it clear that its findings do not show evidence of extraterrestrial life itself, but that under the ...

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 ...

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.