Gaining insight could help understand the timing and process of life's emergence. A research team led by a Rutgers-New ...
Scientists used to believe that when a massive impact created the Moon, it also delivered a lot of water to Earth. However, this study challenges that idea. Instead, it suggests that Earth got its ...
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but the wait is proving to be worth it. A new study published January 29 in ...
Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.
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NASA finds key molecules for life in OSIRIS-REx asteroid samples. Here's what that meansThere are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 ...
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Asteroid samples reveal secrets of an ancient water worldCombining the ingredients of life with an environment of sodium-rich salt water, or brines ... While all of the organic ...
When Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the National Museum ... The presence of evaporites means that sodium-rich water once ...
For years, scientists have been puzzled about why Earth and Mars have fewer important elements like copper and zinc compared ...
New research on meteorites may finally hold the answers to why Earth and Mars suffer from a mysterious absence of specific ...
Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
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