The chemical makeup of mineral inclusions preserved in impact glass hints at the site of a missing impact crater.

Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...

This makes the team's structure–composition relationship equations more accurate for the complicated reality of the naturally occurring minerals central to some carbon storage efforts.

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

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

PT5, initially identified as a near-Earth asteroid, is believed to be a lunar fragment due to its unique orbit and mineral ...

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Many of the minerals have small bits of water trapped in their crystalline structures, so researchers may be able to learn about how the composition of the brine changed over time, which could ...

When asteroids like Bennu hit the young Earth, they could have provided a complete package of complex molecules and the ...

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 ...