NASA’s Bennu samples have revealed an unexpected mix of sugars, sticky 'gum-like' material and ancient stardust. Scientists ...

When NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission brought back its precious cargo from Asteroid Bennu, scientists expected incredible data. What ...

When scientists sifted through dust from asteroid Bennu and spotted tryptophan, the same amino acid often blamed for post‑Thanksgiving drowsiness, they were not just adding a quirky space fact to the ...

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Bennu samples reveal biological sugars, a strange, gum-like material, and ancient stardust that shed light on the early solar ...

Scientists discovered ribose — in addition to “all five nucleobases used to construct both DNA and RNA” — on asteroid Bennu, ...

Studying samples from the Bennu asteroid, researchers have found sugars essential for biology, stardust and ... something ...

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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 ...

A new analysis of samples returned from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu has revealed a rich collection of organic molecules, ...