Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to ...
A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid ...
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 ...
A backgammon set with board and pieces, also uncovered from Australia. The game is made with highly polished slabs of ...
The pristine interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS is theorised to be covered in ice cryovolcanoes, challenging all models of comet ...
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed a striking new clue in the puzzle of life’s origins. A small rock sample collected ...
Few complete skeletons remain of this gentle behemoth, who was destroyed by explorers and fur traders in the Arctic.
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission brought back pristine pieces of the asteroid Bennu in 2023—and these tiny grains are turning out to ...