Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building - ‘We’re looking at events near the beginning of the beginning’ ...

The intriguing findings bolster the theory that asteroids seeded the early Earth with life's chemical components - a process ...

The asteroid Bennu continues to provide new clues to scientists' biggest questions about the formation of the early solar ...

A critical nutrient used to produce the neurotransmitter serotonin may have turned up in samples collected from asteroid ...

A tiny salmon parasite has become the first animal proven to survive without oxygen, overturning long-held biology ...

Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...

Since the 1950s, humanity has been searching for extraterrestrial life with increasingly sophisticated tools. But after ...

Josephine Walton’s research in the field of microbiology has taken her from the geothermal hot springs of Thermopolis to the ...

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

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

Tryptophan, an essential amino acid, has been discovered on asteroid Bennu, suggesting that asteroids may have delivered ...