Rayme Traub, a Sherrard native and NASA engineer, helped design the Europa Clipper probe. On Saturday, the probe will undergo ...

What is life? This is the typical big question scientists have been trying to answer for millenniums. But this time, the big ...

NASA have found evidence of the building blocks of life on an asteroid, Professor Luke O’Neill has said. With talks of a ...

So, if astrobiologists ever do find alien life with a weird chemistry that uses some liquid other than water, it's not likely to be methane, ammonia, or molten rock — but somewhere out there, alien ...

Scientists have discovered traces of organic compounds in asteroid samples brought back by NASA, a finding that could suggest essential building blocks of life were distributed throughout the solar ...

Dust and other debris would rise into the atmosphere on Bennu striking Earth, blocking out the Sun and cooling the planet to ...

When NASA launched a spacecraft to an asteroid ... Why are all known living things only based on the left-handed forms of amino acids, the molecules that build proteins? His moment arrived nearly a ...

L-tyrosine is an amino acid that's often used in supplements to improve cognitive function affected by stress. Supplements containing L-tyrosine supplements may also help treat phenylketonuria (PKU).

Of the 20 essential amino acids, nine are actually essential. Of those nine, three are branch-chain amino acids (BCAAs). Leucine falls into both groups. All BCAAS are vital for building and ...

(Courtesy: James Di Loreto, Smithsonian) A sample of asteroid dirt brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission contains amino acids and the nucleobases of RNA and DNA, plus brines that could ...

Omega-3 fatty acids, found in foods like oily fish, nuts, and seeds, can extend lifespan by slowing biological aging. A study shows consuming them, along with vitamin D and exercise, rejuvenates ...