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.
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...