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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 ...

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 found tryptophan, the ‘sleepy’ amino acid, in an asteroid. Here’s what it means

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for ...

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 ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)

Table Of Contents Page, PNAS Volume 122, Number 49

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission characterized the asteroid Bennu and delivered pristine samples of its regolith to Earth. Coordinated analyses of this primitive, carbonaceous material are elucidating the ...

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 ...
Arizona Daily Star

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 ...