Asteroid Bennu, a dark rubble pile roughly the height of the Empire State Building, has turned out to be a chemical treasure ...

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 ...

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

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 ...