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NASA has confirmed that dust from the ancient asteroid Bennu contains tryptophan, an amino acid tied both to human mood and ...

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

For the first time, tryptophan, which is an essential amino acid, has been identified in extraterrestrial material.

“Our findings expand the evidence that prebiotic organic molecules can form within primitive accreting planetary bodies and ...

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission found sugars essential for biology on asteroid Bennu. These sugars, along with previously found components, indicate that th ...

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Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and ...

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

Scientists led by Yoshihiro Furukawa of Tohoku University in Japan found sugars essential for biology on Earth in the Bennu ...

Samples collected from the asteroid Bennu are continuing the shed light on the origins of the solar system and how life ...