Scientists from NASA and other institutions who have been analyzing the Bennu asteroid sample that returned to Earth last ...

The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 billion years ago. The presence of evaporites means that sodium-rich water once ...

There 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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Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

Shortfin makos are the fastest sharks in the sea, but they're failing to outpace the scale of overfishing that is driving ...

I said, ‘Why don’t we start another interesting challenge: making the Spidey adhesive,’ and here we are.” Lo Presti is both a ...

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

Scientists studying samples that NASA collected from the asteroid Bennu found a wide assortment of organic molecules that ...