There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

While the composition of gas and dust in a molecular cloud is fairly uniform, everything changes once a star begins to form.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

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

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

When exposed to formaldehyde, which was also detected, ammonia can form amino acids, the building blocks of proteins.

Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...

National Engineering Research Center of Chemical Fertilizer Catalyst, Fuzhou University, Fuzhou 350002, P. R. China ...

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