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 ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

By exploring Yellowstone's geothermal springs, scientists discovered the microbes that reveal how life adapted to harsh conditions billions of years ago.

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...

The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...

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

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...