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 ...
WISN 12 News on MSN

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

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

‘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 ...
The Daily Galaxy on MSN

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 ...