When NASA intentionally crashed the DART spacecraft into an asteroid, the goal was simple: test planetary defense. But what ...
A Harvard scientist has suggested that our Solar System may be far more crowded with interstellar objects than anyone ...
A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments simulating interstellar space show that simple amino acids can link into peptides, ...
Did life begin in space even before Earth existed? Study finds ancient amino acids in asteroid Bennu
Samples from the asteroid Bennu hint that some of life’s ingredients were forming long before Earth existed. NASA’s ...
Research findings are available online in the Astrophysical Journal. The original story “ Student made cosmic dust in the lab ...
Unusual isotopic ratio in samples brought back by Chang'e-6 reveals clues about the early history of Earth's satellite ...
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