In everyday life, we typically encounter water in one of three familiar states—solid, liquid or gas. But there are in fact ...

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

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

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

Billions of years ago, the molecular building blocks of life emerged from a complex web of chemical and geological processes.

While it has been established that water exists on the Moon, pinpointing its precise locations presents a formidable ...

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

They are also rich in prebiotic organic molecules. Some of these types of molecules are the building blocks for life. This ...

The asteroid Bennu contains all the materials needed for life. This backs up an old hypothesis that the building blocks of ...

Enzyme designers in the David Baker lab at the University of Washington in Seattle, from left: Sam Pellock, Anna Lauko, Kiera ...

NASA OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return team has revealed exciting evidence of the precursors of life in the pieces of space ...

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