A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid ...

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

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists ...

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

Bennu is a primitive rock. It has remained mostly unchanged since the birth of our solar system around 4.6 billion years ago. On September 24, 2023, dust and mineral samples were hauled to Earth by ...

The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu in 2023—and these tiny grains are turning out to ...

It is good to be back and there is plenty to explore in the December night sky. Starting on Tuesday is the comet C/2025 T1 Atlas, which makes its closest approach to the sun. There is a supermoon on ...

An Apache girl comes of age in a traditional ceremony, possibly the last at Oak Flat before copper mining threatens to ...

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

Atmospheric dust plays an important role in the way Earth absorbs and reflects sunlight, impacting the global climate, cloud ...