New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...

REx mission found minerals on asteroid Bennu that match California’s Searles Lake, offering clues about ancient water, ...

The OSIRIS-REx mission returned to the sample to Earth in September of 2023, and these studies show that it contains amino ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ingredients essential to life, such as water, phosphate, and ammonia. Together, ...

Reliable sinkhole data isn’t readily available to the public. For the fifth time, a Florida congressman is trying to pass a ...

A bright fireball streaked across the sky above mountains, glaciers and spruce forest near the town of Revelstoke in British Columbia, Canada, on the evening of March 31, 1965. Fragments of this ...

Alongside the notable molecular discoveries, the research team said they found evidence that Bennu was rich in salts and other minerals. "Although scientists have previously detected several ...