Earth, for context, is around 4.5 billion years old. That means life first emerged when the planet was still practically a newborn. "We did not expect LUCA to be so old, within just hundreds of ...

The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Exploring the transformation of Earth from a volcanic hellscape to a potential birthplace of life during the Hadean era.

Roughly 4.6 billion years ago, the Sun was born from the gas and dust of a nebula that underwent gravitational collapse. The ...

Bennu’s rocks formed 4.5 billion years ago on a larger parent asteroid ... such as the kinds that make up life on Earth. When ...

Earth's climate has changed throughout history for numerous reasons, but modern climate change is driven by human behavior.

Analysis of debris from the nearly 5 billion-year-old asteroid Bennu suggests the ingredients to life on Earth were present ...

From towering trees to the smallest bugs, life on Earth today has been affected ... A turning point came about 3.4 to 2.9 billion years ago when tiny life forms called cyanobacteria evolved ...

All life on Earth is based on carbon and is built from organic compounds ... The origin of life is related to organic ...