Deposits found on a nearby asteroid point to salty water in the outer Solar System
Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision. But their proximity also offers ample opportunities to learn more about the ...
Scientists Uncover Ancient Salt Deposits on Asteroid Ryugu – Was There Water?
Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System Scientists have uncovered salt minerals in ...
A new theory explains how water first arrived on Earth
When Earth first formed, it was too hot to retain ice. This means all the water on our planet must have originated from ...
Study models asteroid collision’s potentially devastating impact
A Bennu-type asteroid could lead to “severe environmental consequences,” researchers write, while acknowledging that a ...
Asteroid Bennu Samples Contain Building Blocks of Life
Samples of Bennu were brought back to Earth by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft in 2023. Now, a pair of newly published papers ...
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Liquid Water Once Flowed on the Surface of Mars
NASA's Rover found ripples in Martian rock that resemble the wave patterns on a sandy lake bed on Earth. The ripples could only have come from liquid water.
Bennu asteroid reveals its contents to scientists − and clues to how the building blocks of life on Earth may have been seeded
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
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Evidence of ancient frozen ocean found on dwarf planet Ceres
Explore Ceres, the largest asteroid in our solar system, and discover its remarkable ancient ocean and ice-rich crust.