Asteroid Bennu, which passes near the Earth roughly every six years, contains tryptophan, one of the most complex amino acids essential for life, scientists have confirmed. This discovery comes from ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. The first analysis of the Bennu asteroid samples that NASA brought to Earth earlier this ...

OSIRIS-Rex arrived at Asteroid Bennu expecting a smooth, forgiving surface ideal for sample collection. Instead, the spacecraft found a world made of loose, shifting debris that reacted unpredictably ...

After an extended stay at the asteroid Bennu, OSIRIS-REx is headed home. The asteroid-sampling spacecraft with Tucson roots began its 2½-year journey back to Earth early Monday afternoon with a ...

A paternity test is pending, but Bennu and Ryugu could turn out to be long-lost twins, separated at birth by a cosmic cataclysm. New research by a University of Arizona-led team suggests the two ...

PHNOM PENH, Nov 20 (Reuters) - Conservationists in Cambodia have for the first time released two captive-bred Greater Adjutant Stork chicks into the wild as part of an ongoing programme to revive a ...