One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

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

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

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 ...

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...

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

The team from India's Physical Research Laboratory (PRL) has created the first geological map of Chandrayaan-3 landing site, ...

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

Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.

A medley of elements make life on Earth possible, yet the ways in which our planet ... detailing a crucial chapter in Earth’s early history. In the study, the researchers sought to understand what led ...

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

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...