Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an asteroid called Bennu, delivered to Earth in 2023 by NASA's OSIRIS-REx ...

Scientists suggest that the amino acids found on the asteroid Bennu did not require warm, liquid water to form, as previously ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Known non-biological sources, from meteorites to surface chemistry, fall short of accounting for organic compounds detected ...

We start this week with a bit of a good news/bad news situation. On February 6th, the Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) was shut down after 25 years of operation. Located at Brookhaven ...

A colossal ancient impact may have reshaped the Moon far more deeply than scientists once realized. By analyzing rare lunar rocks brought back by China’s Chang’e-6 mission from the Moon’s largest ...

Winning an Olympic medal is priceless, but its real value is more complex. From metal content to taxes and prestige, here’s a ...

Hidden in a shipping container bound for the UK, the massive iron mass turned out to be far more than ornamental.

Abandoned cattle survived alone on a remote subantarctic island, evolved against all odds, then vanished overnight, leaving scientists questioning what was lost and whether nature was truly protected.

A fragment of the Aletai meteorite was discovered by Baltic Customs officers while scanning a shipping container at the Port ...