Understanding where Earth's essential elements came from—and why some are missing—has long puzzled scientists. Now, a new ...
Understanding how life as we know it came to exist, is something that scientists and researchers have long been examining by looking at the geological evidence we have left on Earth. A key place to ...
Earth received water toward the final stages of its formation. This reshapes understanding of the conditions needed for life.
Water, one of the essential ingredients for life on Earth, did not appear on the planet until after the moon-forming event, a new study claims ...
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino acids and nucleobases found in DNA and RNA. The presence of ammonia and ...
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
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.
About 95 grams of meteorite bits were gathered from the site, and Herd received around seven grams of samples to study back at the university. Analysis found the samples were ordinary chondrites ...
A dense rock that leaves a black or red streak probably contains the iron minerals magnetite or hematite, respectively, neither of which are typically found in meteorites. LOOK: Meteorite Hunter ...