The Mineral Museum at Montana Tech has reopened one of its most popular exhibits, featuring fluorescent minerals that glow in the dark under UV light.Two stude ...
The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
A new analysis of samples from the asteroid Bennu, NASA’s first asteroid sample captured in space and delivered to Earth, reveals that evaporated water left a briny broth where salts and minerals ...
This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
Thousands of mysterious clay mounds found on Mars were formed by ancient water on the Red Planet's barren northern plains, ...
The thermal conductivity of rocks and minerals is a critical property that influences various geological and engineering applications, including geothermal energy extraction and the stability of ...
Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...
Rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu exhibit some of the chemical building blocks of life, ...