The evaporation rate is quantitatively assessed and compared by testing a range of temperatures (30, 60, and 80 °C) and gas ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

Molecules friendly to life have been found in samples of the asteroid Bennu, which NASA collected with a robotic probe five years ago.

There are 20 amino acids that create the proteins required for life on our planet — and scientists have now found exactly 14 of them on an asteroid millions of miles away. The asteroid in question, ...

Emerging pollutants are compounds—microplastics, oils, dyes, pharmaceuticals, plasticizers, etc.—that end up in aquatic ...

New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

The SPHEREx mission will image 1 billion galaxies, 100 million stars, and 10,000 asteroids – and help to answer some of the biggest scientific mysteries.

Electron antineutrinos are emitted during nuclear beta decay, a type of radioactive decay in which a neutron decays into a ...

New research in eGastroenterology identifies the unfolded protein response (UPR) as a crucial mechanism in maintaining ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...