A team led by a Rutgers-New Brunswick scientist has concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission returned from space with a sample of an asteroid named Bennu and scientists got to dive into a tale ...

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

Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during Earth's formation as previously thought, an insight that bears directly on the question of when life originated on the planet. The finding ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the "basic building blocks" for life, shedding new light ...

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 ...

Pristine samples of the asteroid Bennu transported to Earth contain the 'basic building blocks' for life, shedding new light ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

The Bennu discovery helps to illuminate how, early in the Solar System’s history, asteroids and other planetary building blocks were not just “lumps of stone and ice, but active ‘living’ objects”, ...

and Bennu’s samples are pivotal in our understanding of what ingredients in our solar system existed before life started on Earth.” Bennu might not be the only extraterrestrial entity that ...

They started by estimating exoplanet surface conditions ... It also shows how resilient Earth life can be. "Overall, these results highlight both the resilience of E. coli in adapting to diverse ...