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

Marvel's First Family faces their most daunting challenge yet. Forced to balance their roles as heroes with the strength of ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

Near-Earth asteroid Bennu has a slim chance of colliding with Earth in 2182. If it does, the impact could trigger a global ...

“Asteroids provide a time capsule into our home planet’s history, and Bennu’s samples ... in our solar system existed before life started on Earth.” Bennu might not be the only ...

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