A new study analyzes three asteroid and two meteorite samples to see if space rocks smacking into Earth could’ve helped ...
Interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS has arrived in our neighborhood trailing something far more consequential than a pretty tail: clear signs of complex chemistry that underpins life as we know it. As ...
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All the essential ingredients to kick-start life as we know it have now been found in samples from the asteroid Bennu. This shows that asteroids could have delivered all the prerequisites for life to ...
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Gear-obsessed editors choose every product we review. We may earn commission if you buy from a link. Why Trust Us? For life to take hold on Earth, it needed a suite of chemical compounds, or seed sets ...