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

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...

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

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

Asteroids, small airless bodies within the inner solar system, are theorized to have contributed water and chemical building blocks of life to Earth billions of years ago. Although meteorites on Earth ...

Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...

It was Kelly’s father, who lives nearby, who prompted the couple to dredge up some samples for further inspection. Using a vacuum and magnet — which can attract the metals found in meteorites ...

The meteorite is one of only 69 known to have ... Still, geologists would need to collect samples and bring them into a lab for a full workup. "The odds of this happening are just so astronomical." ...

including the splat sound the meteorite made when it hit the walkway. Velaidum, who was curious about the origins of the dark gray powder near his walkway, collected some samples of the remnants ...

but in contrast to meteorites, the Bennu samples are pristine and were protected from heating during atmospheric entry and exposure to terrestrial contamination,” Glavin said. “So we have a ...