In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Of all the challenges facing the Colorado River, there’s at least one that all stakeholders are working on collaboratively, ...

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 moon of Saturn that has been observed spraying geysers of salty water from deep cracks in its surface. One of the implications of the Bennu result is that “it actually might make the search ...

Each year, cities, states and individuals spread millions of tons of road salt, which can leach into nearby freshwater ...

Asteroids are fragmentary remnants of pre-existing parent bodies from early in our Solar System’s history that have since ...

The findings provide the strongest evidence yet that asteroids may have planted the seeds of life on Earth. CAPE CANAVERAL, ...