NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

The paper shows how Earth's earliest life forms—microbes such as O 2-producing bacteria and methane-producing archaea—shaped, and were shaped by, changes in the oceans, continents, and atmosphere.

Although these new life-forms spread worldwide ... The Mistaken Point fossils, going back 570 million years, are the earliest evidence on Earth of large, biologically complex beings.

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

New work offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

UK researchers have confirmed the existence of a “super Earth” located 20 light-years away that could reveal the existence of ...

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

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 ...