All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020.

As this water evaporated, it formed minerals rich in sodium, carbon, sulfur, phosphorus, chlorine and fluorine. These minerals formed much like they do today in soda lakes on Earth and subsurface ...