Can scientists detect life without knowing what it looks like? Research using machine learning offers a new way

When NASA scientists opened the sample return canister from the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample mission in late 2023, they found ...

NASA’s Bennu asteroid holds secrets of life: Discovery of sugars, mysterious space gum, and ancient supernova star dust

Bennu asteroid samples returned by NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveal life's building blocks, including sugars like ribose and glucose. Scientists also ...
Chemistry World

AI continues to make waves and structural editing impresses in 2025

Last year’s chemistry Nobel prize was awarded to researchers using AI to study proteins in entirely new ways, and in 2025 ...
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Scientists found tryptophan, the ‘sleepy’ amino acid, in an asteroid — Here’s what it means

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 ...

Is life out there? NASA finds essential sugars on ancient asteroid the size of the Empire State Building

NASA has found sugars essential for life on Earth in samples of the 4.6 billion-year-old Bennu asteroid. Scientists discovered glucose, the human body’s main source of energy, as well as the critical ...