A pair of new studies suggest that key steps toward life’s chemistry may begin long before planets exist. Experiments ...

NASA's SPHEREx space telescope detected organic molecules coming off comet 3I/ATLAS as the interstellar visitor made its ...

Amino acids, the building blocks necessary for life, were previously found in samples of 4.6-billion-year-old rocks from an ...

Cosmic dust normally comes from dying stars. The recipe for a lab-made version includes a few gases, vacuum tubes and ...

Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely ...

Scientists have discovered the building blocks of life in samples retrieved from a distant asteroid. In January 2025, scientists announced the discovery of organic molecules— the building blocks of ...

The discovery is just the latest to come from the asteroid sample, which dates back to the dawn of the solar system.

"We found an unexpected chemical complexity, with abundances far higher than predicted by current theoretical models." ...

Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Several new studies on a near-Earth asteroid are offering fresh clues about the early solar system. Samples from the asteroid, ...