We have long struggled to determine how the first living organisms on Earth came together. Now, surprising evidence hints ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

Three more papers on the samples brought back from asteroid Bennu reveal the place contains the building blocks of DNA and ...

Inside the cell reside many tiny assembly factories and warehouses that gather together all of the proteins and RNAs—which ...

Dr. Comfort is a historian of genetics who is completing a biography of James Watson. At first, James Watson terrified me. It was 1991 and my first day as the science writer at Cold Spring Harbor ...

NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed life-linked sugars, a mysterious gum-like substance and even grains of ancient stardust.

Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile roughly the height of the Empire State Building, has turned out to be a chemical treasure ...

“Our findings expand the evidence that prebiotic organic molecules can form within primitive accreting planetary bodies and ...

Inside the cell reside many tiny assembly factories and warehouses that gather together all of the proteins and RNAs-which ...

Inside the cell reside many tiny assembly factories and warehouses that gather together all of the proteins and RNAs-which ...

A new analysis of samples returned from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has revealed a rich collection of organic molecules, ...