A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...
This analysis revealed how evaporated water formed a briny primordial “broth” where ... ways on Bennu’s parent body,” study ...
All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...