New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.

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

When scientists sifted through dust from asteroid Bennu and spotted tryptophan, the same amino acid often blamed for ...

NASA has received samples of Asteroid Ryugu from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). The samples were collected by ...

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

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

“Impact flashes on the moon are very common,” University of Colorado Boulder astrophysical and planetary sciences professor Paul Hayne said. “In fact, they happen more or less every night, and it’s a ...

The European Space Agency announced Thursday it had secured a record budget of 22.1 billion euros to fund its programmes for ...

A Japanese space probe launched last year passed by Earth on Thursday to harness the planet's gravitational pull to propel it toward a far away asteroid in its quest to study the origin of the solar ...

Near-Earth asteroid Eros will appear near the Andromeda Galaxy on 30 November, offering a rare sky alignment livestream for ...