The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...

The finding supports the theory that asteroids could have delivered the necessary components for life to begin on Earth and ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

Another study in Nature Astronomy, led by Scott Sandford at NASA’s Ames Research Center and Zack Gainsforth of UC Berkeley, ...

Bennu is believed to have originated from the shards of a much larger world. Curiously, asteroid Ryugu, sampled by the ...

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

Asteroid Bennu was already a time capsule from the dawn of the Solar System, but the first detailed look at its returned ...

“Our findings expand the evidence that prebiotic organic molecules can form within primitive accreting planetary bodies and ...

A group of researchers from Japan and the United States have detected six types of sugar in rock and dust samples from an asteroid that could show ingredients for life existed outside Earth.

"I'm becoming much more optimistic that we may be able to find life beyond Earth, even in our own solar system." ...

For the first time in an extraterrestrial sample, scientists detected ribose, which is a five-carbon sugar vital for RNA, and glucose, the six-carbon sugar that powers cells on Earth.