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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 ...