Asteroid Bennu May Hold Clues On How Life Began As NASA Detects Tryptophan

Jose Aponte, an astrochemist in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and co-author of ...

Scientists find evidence that an asteroid contains tryptophan

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for the first time, giving scientists clues to the origin of life on Earth.
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Scientists Just Found a Secret Ingredient of Life on Asteroid Bennu — And It’s Changing Everything

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission has revealed a striking new clue in the puzzle of life’s origins. A small rock sample collected ...
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‘Jigsaw piece’: Bennu reaffirms asteroids sowed earliest seeds of life on Earth

Bennu itself is a fascinating “jigsaw piece” of the early solar system. This third-of-a-mile-wide space rock is likely a ...

NASA’s Osiris-Apex flyby: Watch the spacecraft capture a stunning view of Earth

The probe flew 3,438 kilometres above Earth during its swing. It moved closer than several high-orbit satellites circling the ...
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Bennu asteroid like Goldilocks, just right for OSIRIS-REx mission

The OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu launches in six days. Bennu is the Goldilocks of asteroids — not too small, not too far away and made of just the right stuff. Of the more than 500,000 ...

Scientists issue chilling update on the ‘city-killer’ asteroid heading towards the moon – as they warn the odds of a collision could rise to as much as 30%

Asteroid 2024 YR4 currently has a four per cent chance of hitting the moon on 22 December 2032. However, fresh observations could mean the odds of a collision rise to as high as 30 per cent.

3I/ATLAS: Canadian Astrophotographer Clicks Clearest-Ever Picture Of Interstellar Visitor

On November 19, 2025, NASA did a live webcast to share the hitherto unreleased cache of 3I/ATLAS images taken by several of ...