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New experiments suggest RNA, life’s essential molecule, could have formed naturally on early Earth and even arrived from ...

New research shows how RNA, a key molecule for life, may have formed on early Earth using simple chemistry and materials delivered by asteroid impacts, linking space science with the origins of life ...

A giant impact on the early Earth could have brought the building blocks of RNA to our planet, which new research suggests ...

If nonliving materials can produce rich, organized mixtures of organic molecules, then the traditional signs we use to ...

Did humans not originate from Earth? That is a question which has always puzzled scientists. Now, a social media claim has gone viral as it states that a 2 billion-year-old asteroid contains human DNA ...

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How life began on Earth is one of the biggest remaining questions in science. Now, NASA has taken a major step towards answering this query. The US space agency has discovered essential sugars on ...

REx reveals asteroid Bennu contains life's building blocks, shedding light on Earth's origins and the potential for extraterrestrial life.

The observations were carried out by the Breakthrough Listen program as the object neared its closest approach to Earth on ...

An international team of researchers pointed the largest single-dish radio telescope in the world at 3I/ATLAS.