The origins of life on our planet remains one of science’s great mysteries. Now, a NASA mission that brought a piece of an ...

A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...

And can we 'derive' it in a purely ... Protein Shapes Can Help Untangle Life's Ancient History Jan. 15, 2025 — The three-dimensional shape of a protein can be used to resolve deep, ancient ...

How life evolved is one of the central questions in science and has fascinated humans for centuries. Early Earth was undoubtedly a harsh environment, but we know surprisingly little about the ...

Katrina Twing, a professor of microbiology at Weber State University, was invited to speak at a conference of Japan ...

New insights from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission have unveiled intriguing clues about the potential origins of life on Earth. The mission, which launched in Septembe ...

“We have discovered that next step on a pathway to life.” The samples from Bennu came from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification and Security ...

The findings open the door to using the massive amount of structural data being generated by tools like AlphaFold 2 and help open new windows into the ancient history of life on Earth. The three ...

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

They are among the most popular dogs in the United States, but at the biggest dog show in the world, they are never (never!) ...

Sheep have been intertwined with human livelihoods for over 11,000 years. As well as meat, their domestication led to humans ...