The origins of life on our planet remains one science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...
One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...
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 ...
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of ...
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...
Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence 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 ...