Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid

Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building - ‘We’re looking at ...

NASA Just Found Tryptophan on Asteroid Bennu — Could This Be the Secret to How Life Began?

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

Scientists found tryptophan, the ‘sleepy’ amino acid, in an asteroid. Here’s what it means

An essential amino acid that is mistakenly believed to cause drowsiness after eating turkey has been found in an asteroid for ...

Asteroid Bennu May Hold Clues On How Life Began As NASA Detects Tryptophan

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

Scientists almost didn't detect approach of 'city-killer asteroid' that just missed Earth

Asteroid 2019 OK is a sizable chunk of rock, but it’s nowhere near as big as the ones capable of causing an event like the dinosaurs’ extinction. More than 90 percent of those asteroids, which are 1 ...
Phys.org

News on nasa-asteroid

NASA's Lucy spacecraft has beamed back pictures from its latest asteroid flyby, revealing a long, lumpy, odd-shaped space rock. The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now ...
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This Week, NASA Is Pretending An Asteroid Is On Its Way To Smack The Earth

A fictitious asteroid is the focus of a realistic exercise, as experts at the Planetary Defense Conference run through how they would respond to... This Week, NASA Is Pretending An Asteroid Is On Its ...