NASA's asteroid samples contain organic compounds and minerals that may have seeded early Earth with life's building blocks.

The rise of pastoralist peoples in the Eurasian steppes and their westward spread some 5,000 years ago may have been fueled by sheep herding and people exploiting their milk. As early as 8,000 years ...

Wageningen researchers have discovered that a vital plant protein originated more than 600 million years ago, long before the ...

Rock and dust samples from the Bennu asteroid contain molecules that are the "key to life" on Earth, NASA officials announced ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

Scientists have long believed they understood how life’s genetic code evolved, but new research upends that assumption. By analyzing ancient protein sequences, researchers discovered that early life p ...

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

One example of public debate over the use of a genetically modified plant involves the case of Bt corn. Bt corn expresses a protein from the ... called "Recombinant DNA Safety Considerations ...

Scientists have discovered numerous organic compounds in samples from the asteroid Bennu, including key amino acids and the ...

Samples of organic matter returned from the asteroid Bennu support the theory that asteroids could have brought the building ...

The human genome encodes potentially thousands of tiny proteins that were previously overlooked. The search is on to find out ...

The building blocks of DNA have been found in samples returned to Earth from an asteroid, suggesting life rained down from ...