Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

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

The dataset covers the period between September 2004 and December 2023 and will enable researchers to explore and model some ...

How fast the level of atmospheric carbon dioxide — and with it, the temperature — goes up matters for the ability of humans ...

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

Scientists have finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a NASA spacecraft from an asteroid. In it, they've found ...

Researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history of water and organic compounds in a sample ...

Moreover, Canada is closer to Greenland than Denmark and shares a land border on Hans Island. Existing ports, airfields and ...

Some parts of Earth's atmosphere are studied continuously ... lidar instruments — and fed them into a new data assimilation system they had developed earlier. Data assimilation is a technique ...

Studies of asteroid Bennu delivered to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft have revealed molecules that, on our planet, are key to life.

Bennu samples brought back by a University of Arizona-led space mission contain the key ingredients of life and signs of the ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...