Great Salt Lake in Utah has hit unprecedented low water levels in 2022, raising serious ecological, economic, and health ...

Scientists have discovered a unique sequence of minerals that formed from evaporated water in samples from Bennu.

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

Cities in the Northeast experienced record-breaking drought conditions in the second half of 2024 after a hot, dry summer in many areas. Wildfires broke out in several states that rarely see them.

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 ...

The study is the first peer-reviewed effort to quantitatively assess the contributing factors behind Great Salt Lake's record ...

This photo of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 Polycam images collected on Dec. 2, 2024, by the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. NASA A ...

Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...

Scientists found that asteroid Bennu contained a set of salty mineral deposits that formed in an exact sequence when a brine evaporated, leaving clues about the type of water that flowed billions of ...

Hard water has an abundance of minerals and due to the processes that humidifiers use to vaporize water, all of those minerals can potentially wind up as dust.

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

Researchers offer their most comprehensive assessment to date of the history of water and organic compounds in a sample ...