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, not in one big event
Research analyzing molybdenum isotopes in meteorites and Earth rocks shows our planet received its water later than ...
The ingredients to life on Earth were discovered on a distant asteroid for the first time: NASA
Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...
Asteroid contains building blocks of life, say scientists
Bennu contains minerals and thousands of organic molecules, including the chemical components that make up DNA.
NASA scientists want to solve a mystery: Why did life "turn left?"
When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid, scientists patiently waited for their chance to look at bits of the space ...
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Lunar rocks help scientists pinpoint when the moon crystallized
If the scientists could very precisely measure the proportions of lutetium and halfnium in moon rocks compared to other ...
An Asteroid Sample Just Changed What We Know About Life in Our Solar System
The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...
Building blocks of life found in samples from asteroid Bennu
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...
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Scientists find life’s ‘building blocks’ in asteroid Bennu samples
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
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Martian lava rocks shed light on critical period of Red Planet’s history, says Brock scientist
No matter how many missions to Mars she takes part in, the sheer joy of unearthing discoveries about the Red Planet never ...
Unprecedented asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals crucial to life, scientists say
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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Life-bearing water arrived on Earth later rather than sooner
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 ...