The perfumery is opening the Musée de la Mode et du Costume on July 6 in the heart of Arles, designed by Studio KO.

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar system and the building blocks of life.

It's time for our annual listener question show, where we find answers to your burning science questions like: is the asteroid belt an exploded planet? Why can't whales breathe under water? What ...

A sample from the asteroid Bennu, the subject of the 2016 OSIRIS-REx mission, and a “near-Earth asteroid,” has arrived at the Field Museum. Uncontaminated by the Earth’s atmosphere, this ...

She'll use the museum's scanning electron microscope to get an up-close look at a tiny sample of Bennu. "What struck me is how dark the sample is. I had never seen such a dark sample," Heck said.

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan from NASA, won't be on display for visitors, but will give scientists ...

"Blew Us Away": Experts On Life-Building Chemicals In Asteroid Bennu Samples Named after an Egyptian bird, Bennu contains special minerals such as salts, phosphates, ammonia and dozens of protein ...

Life on Earth relies on molecular building blocks to make DNA and proteins. Scientists have long wondered how prevalent these precursors were at the birth of our solar system. A sample of dust and ...

Analysing returned samples Tim McCoy (right), curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, and research geologist Cari Corrigan examine scanning electron microscope ...

"We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples that we have never seen before in a meteorite or any extraterrestrial sample," Tim McCoy, curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...