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

Life in these underworlds runs on a very different timeline to Earth's bustling surface. With no sunlight, energy is sparse ...

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 ...

We live in a golden age for space exploration. Scientists are gathering massive amounts of new information and scientific ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. — An ambitious, multinational research project funded by NASA and co-led by the University at Buffalo has ...

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

HD 20794 d completes its orbit just shy of two Earth years, placing it well within reach of conditions that might harbor life ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the building blocks of DNA and RNA were present ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth and that these ...