Scientists find a 'next step on a pathway to life' in space
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
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Water arrived on Earth gradually over time, not in one big event
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
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Life and Water Appeared on Earth After the Moon Formed, Researchers Say
Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...
Life-bearing water arrived on Earth later rather than sooner, meteorite analysis suggests
A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...
Scientists find traces of life’s building blocks in historic asteroid samples
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
Historic asteroid sample reveals the ‘building blocks of life are in fact extraterrestrial in origin,’ scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples ... in our solar system existed before life started on Earth.” Bennu might not be the only ...
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Life-bearing water arrived on Earth later rather than sooner
Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...