The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

Amino acids from asteroid Bennu suggest that some of life’s building blocks formed in icy conditions in the early solar system.

Earth’s deep stores of water may have been locally sourced rather than trucked in from far-flung regions of the solar system. Earth is thought to have been born in an interplanetary desert, too close ...

Meteorites and comets likely carried simple amino acid chains to early Earth, which led to the creation of life, scientists confirmed in a series of experiments. It is widely thought that organisms on ...