The first grains of rock and dust from asteroid Bennu are turning out to be far richer than many scientists dared hope, packed with organic molecules that speak directly to how life may have first ...
Scientists have uncovered an extraordinary finding on Asteroid Bennu, a space rock that passes near Earth roughly every six years. NASA’s recent research has confirmed that Bennu contains tryptophan, ...
Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six ...