One leading theory on the origins of life on Earth proposes that simple chemical molecules gradually became more complex, ultimately forming ...

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

By studying rock samples from some of Earth's oldest rocks, scientists know there was plenty of sulfur to go around on the ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft retrieved samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing essential building blocks for life. These include amino acids and nucleobases present in the ancient extraterrestrial rock ...