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 ...
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
Asteroid samples hint at how life formed on Earth, researchers say
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
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 ...
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Asteroid fragments upend theory of how life on Earth bloomed
The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...
NASA reveals results from asteroid Bennu's sample return, hinting at the origins of life
New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...
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Traces of ancient brine discovered on the asteroid Bennu contain minerals crucial to life
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
Prince William Visits Recent Earthshot Prize Finalist NatureMetrics Alongside Schoolchildren: 'Best Day of My Life'
Prince William visited recent Earthshot Prize finalist NatureMetrics on Jan. 29, and watched its eDNA sampling process at its ...
Astronauts use VR to overcome microgravity's negative effects: Life inside the ISS
An HTC headset designed to work in space is offsetting the physical and psychological challenges of humans living off-world.
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission teases new insights on how life began
NASA and its partners have published the first wave of information about the samples collected in the OSIRIS-REx mission.
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Origin of Life News
2024 — Few questions have captivated humankind more than the origin of life on Earth. How did the first living cells come to exist? How did these early protocells develop the structural ...