One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...

A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

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 ...

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

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

They’re the building rocks of life. Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present in the early days of our solar ...

Deep subsurface microbes are highly diverse, challenging assumptions about life in low-energy environments. This discovery has implications for medicine, energy efficiency, and astrobiology. Which ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

NASA scientists found amino acids, key minerals, and nucleobases for DNA in samples from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.

A new study suggests that the explosive deaths of the universe's earliest stars created surprising quantities of water that ...