NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

Scientists believe that two asteroids might be fragments of long-lost "planetary embryos" from the early solar system.

Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

Samples from asteroid Bennu have delivered insights into the origins of Earth’s water and the organic molecules that may have ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

"Simply, the wavelength of the light bounced back from a surface (an asteroid or meteorite) will show distinctive peaks and troughs due to the differences in mineralogy and chemistry," explained ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

Two canyons that splay out from a vast asteroid crater on the moon may have been quickly formed by chains of impacts that ...

A NASA mission collected the sample and brought it back in 2023, and scientists have found traces of ancient brine that contains minerals that are the raw ingredients of life.

Samples from the asteroid Bennu, brought back by the OSIRIS-REx mission ... Analyses conducted on Bennu's samples show an impressive diversity of organic and mineral compounds. These elements, ...

The asteroid, which contains the building blocks ... but in areas such as the Southern Ocean and the eastern tropical Pacific, the mineral is not available in abundance. But if the iron content ...