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 ...
Researchers say the latest discovery is particularly significant because tryptophan has never before been detected in ...
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 ...
“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 ...
New observations show that asteroid 1998 KY26 is a mere 11 meters across and spinning twice as fast as previously thought.
It may not have had the speed of the race to the Moon in the 1960s, but for a nation that launched its first satellite only ...
An asteroid was spotted whizzing past Earth last week in the second closest approach to the planet ever recorded, according to authorities. Asteroid 2025 TF soared over Antarctica just before 9 p.m.