Life-bearing water arrived on Earth later rather than sooner, meteorite analysis suggests
A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...
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Water arrived on Earth gradually over time, not in one big event
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
Meteorite discovery challenges long-held theories on Earth's missing elements
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
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Surprisingly salty asteroid Bennu contains the building blocks of life
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
Roving the red planet: New paper documents first Mars mission soil samples
UNLV-led research details early insights from NASA’s Perseverance rover; Specimens due back on Earth in the 2030s.
A Californian collector bought a rock in Morocco in 2011 and more than a decade later it turns out to be a much more valuable material
When you find a strange looking rock in the desert, it’s likely worth having some experts take a proper look at it, just like in this case.