Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.
The meteor fragments returned by OSIRIS-REx shed light on the entwined history of water and the chemical ingredients of life ...
Bennu is a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking ... To avoid contamination, the sample container was taken to a clean room before being opened. The researchers ...
For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex ... a total of 121.6 grams of material from the asteroid Bennu to Earth, more than twice as much as planned.
Analyses of rock and dust samples from the asteroid Bennu collected and brought to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft show the presence of abundant mineral salts and amino acids revealing unknown ...
A similar asteroid that arrived on Earth as a meteorite ... hydrated sodium carbonate salts highlighted in purple. The Bennu sample container. Credit: NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples ...
The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...