Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
NASA's findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Plouton's dual role blends wealth with the inevitable end of everyone, exemplifying that life and death are two sides of the ...
HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...
A new study by an international team of researchers has uncovered troves of microbes thriving in the hostile subsurface of the earth, far from the life-giving energy of the sun. Chief among the ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission collected samples from asteroid Bennu. Scientists have found amino acids, ammonia and other molecules essential to life on Earth.
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 ...
Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...