When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid ... Why are all known living things only based on the left-handed forms of amino acids, the molecules that build proteins? His moment arrived ...

Similarly, the amino acids that make up proteins are predominantly ... Jason Dworkin, a senior scientist at NASA’s Goddard ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams (4 ounces ... But it was more than enough to tease out the sodium-rich minerals and confirm the presence of amino acids, nitrogen in the form of ammonia ...

NASA’s Osiris-Rex spacecraft returned 122 grams ... out the sodium-rich minerals and confirm the presence of amino acids, nitrogen in the form of ammonia and even parts of the genetic code.

NASA's Curiosity Rover has discovered long carbon chains on Mars. On Earth, molecules like these are overwhelmingly produced by biological processes.

NASA's Curiosity rover has detected long organic molecules, resembling fatty acids, in a Martian rock sample. This unexpected discovery suggests that Mars may have once possessed the chemical ...

said in a NASA statement. Regardless of what made them, the detection of the carbon chains and their likely origins as fatty acids confirms that Curiosity can detect molecules of this kind ...