Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...
Scientists used to believe that when a massive impact created the Moon, it also delivered a lot of water to Earth. However, this study challenges that idea. Instead, it suggests that Earth got its ...
The organic ingredients to life, hints to where Earth’s water came from, and the fundamental building blocks of our planet ...
The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...
It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.