The origins of life on our planet remains one of 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 ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ...

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

A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

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 ...

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

The samples from Bennu came from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation ... in our solar system existed before life started on Earth." Bennu has long intrigued researchers due ...