A recent study from the Earth-Life Science Institute (ELSI) investigates how polyester microdroplets, potential precursors to modern cells, could form under realistic early Earth conditions.

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A team of scientists discovered that the near-Earth asteroid, known as Bennu, contains a wealth of minerals and organic molecules, including many that are building blocks of life. But what has the 4.5 ...

An irreverent tour of the science and folklore behind the space debris that makes it to Earth and the people for whom these rare finds are almost a religion ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

Kevin Righter started at University of Rochester last year, but before that he worked on NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to collect ...

Material retrieved from the asteroid Bennu by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft shows that all the basic building blocks of life ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

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, ...

There's growing fascination with these naturally patterned dials that offer a touch of cosmic elegance and exclusivity ...

No other meteorite fall has been documented like this, complete with sound,” Herd said in a statement. “It adds a whole new dimension to the natural history of the Island.” The space rock ...