Dust from asteroid Bennu is revealing a surprising origin story for life’s building blocks. New research suggests some amino acids formed in frozen ice exposed to radiation, not warm liquid water as ...
The discovery that amino acids can form in more ways than we thought is another boost to the search for life beyond Earth. If ...
Narrated by the soothing voice of the Oscar-winning Morgan Freeman, this four-part natural history series is brought to us by Industrial Light & Magic, employing the finest in next-generation CGI ...
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An asteroid ended the age of the dinosaurs. But how did their reign begin? Mysterious early reptiles may hold the answer
A small but fierce jawbone sits in Argentina’s natural science museum in Buenos Aires. Six inches long and studded with ...
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Life on Earth hit an evolutionary turbo boost after the dinosaur wipeout
Sixty-six million years ago, a 6 mile wide asteroid slammed into Earth and erased more than 75% of life on Earth in a geological instant. The catastrophe that ended the age of Tyrannosaurus and ...
Tiny grains of dust from asteroid Bennu are reshaping how scientists think life’s ingredients formed in space.
After the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Wrecked the Planet, Life May Have Bounced Back Surprisingly Fast
Some 66 million years ago, life on Earth had a pretty bad day. The infamous Chicxulub asteroid slammed into the planet. The ...
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