Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.
A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...
Since the “Saharan Gold Rush” in the 1990s, one researcher has been fighting for the North African country’s contributions to ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
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.
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...
To find answers, the researchers turned to iron meteorites — remnants of the metallic cores ... the process of differentiation on Earth, for example, caused the heaviest materials (like iron and ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...