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

Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

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

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Bennu’s parent asteroid, which formed around 4.5 billion years ago, seems to have been home to pockets of liquid water.

A few days ago, a major inconvenience appeared in both of their lives. Bruce found discolored water in his toilet, and shortly after, all over the house. He called EPWater immediately, and even ...

Our analyses in the laboratory found that the compositions of these samples lined up with those observations. The samples are mostly water-rich clay, with sulfide, carbonate, and iron oxide minerals.

the researchers also found xanthine, hypoxanthine, and nicotinic acid (vitamin B 3). "In previous research, uracil and nicotinic acid were detected in the samples from asteroid Ryugu, but the ...

and samples from eight water sources were found contaminated. An official said Escherichia coli or E.coli bacteria was found in one of the samples obtained from private borewells in the Sinhgad ...

Wave ripples on Mars unveil evidence of ancient water and life potential Scientists have found some very encouraging evidence of ripples caused by ancient waves on Mars formed billions of years ...

So far, they've managed to reveal things like the fact that asteroid Bennu — a space rock representative of the early solar system — appears to hold compounds containing water and carbon.