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

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

A new study highlights how life possibly evolved prior to and during the rise of Earth’s oxygenated atmosphere.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

A new study finds that short-term air pollution exposure harms brain function, reducing focus and emotion recognition.

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Scientist have concluded water did not arrive as early during ... how and when life began. According to present scientific understanding, at least three necessary ingredients are essential to ...

Venus, Mars and Mercury have a discussion about Earth, and why it's the only planet in the Solar System that can support life: the goldilock zone.

NASA's recent retrieval of asteroid samples has unveiled not only the pristine building blocks essential for life ... may have sown the seeds of life on Earth, hinting that these vital ingredients ...

“To understand the origin of life, it becomes important to understand when and how Earth began hosting an ocean with a more neutral pH,” said Meng Guo, a former Yale graduate student in Korenaga’s lab ...

The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...

Since 1990, arid regions have expanded by an area a third larger than India and now cover 40 per cent of the Earth's land ... with rising air pollution, the effects on life around the globe ...