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

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

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

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

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

The probability of humanity being the sole technological civilization in the observable universe is considered to be less ...

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

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

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

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

Harvard scientists explain how Mars had warm spells billions of years ago, allowing rivers and lakes to exist.

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 ...