Earth, for context, is around 4.5 billion years old. That means life first emerged when the planet was still practically a newborn. "We did not expect LUCA to be so old, within just hundreds of ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era. Insights from a University of California study suggest that early Earth had ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Two exciting new studies detail the life-supporting contents of a 4.3-ounce sample of the asteroid Bennu. The OSIRIS-REx ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

Bennu’s rocks formed 4.5 billion years ago on a larger parent asteroid ... such as the kinds that make up life on Earth. When ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ... of the solar system 4.6 billion years ago, around 100 million ...

These grains, including micro-diamonds and silicon carbide, date back over 4.6 billion years, predating our ... might have contributed to the start of life on Earth. Its distinctive smell ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...