Is Earth really exceptional? A new book seems to reaffirm that notion. But given the right conditions, primitive life may be a mere byproduct of biophysics.
The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. – Scientists have long suspected that Mexican long-nosed bats migrate through southeastern Arizona, but ...
With an estimated 200 billion trillion stars in the observable universe, the existence of other technological species is ...
The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...
NASA classifies Bennu as a medium-sized asteroid, measuring about one-third of a mile (500 metres) across. While far smaller ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission delivered samples from asteroid Bennu, revealing crucial molecules linked to life, including amino ...
The Bennu samples contain 14 of the 20 amino acids that are essential for life on Earth to build proteins. Also found were ...
That was until last week, when police used advances in DNA technology to arrest a 66-year-old resident of a Utah nursing home ...
The DNA ingredients discovered on the asteroid Bennu by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that life-building blocks exist ...
Japanese scientists detected all five nucleobases — building blocks of DNA and RNA — in samples returned from asteroid Bennu ...
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