Chile's dark skies, vital for astronomy, face threats from urban development. The asteroid Bennu could pose a future risk to ...

Searles Lake has long been shaped by shifting water levels, volcanic minerals, and evaporite formation. In 2024, satellites ...

Early analysis of asteroid samples from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission show the residue of an icy brine, and a soup of amino acids ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks ...

As part of the Chang'e 7 mission, China will be searching for frozen water, which is crucial for future lunar exploration.

Evaporite minerals from Searles Lake have similarities to minerals found on the asteroid ... high enough, as probably happened early in the sequence. NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, ...

But more recently, the car spawned a high-profile case of mistaken identity as space ... The company plans to launch a small spacecraft, called Odin, in late February to fly by an asteroid and snap ...

Bennu’s highly unlikely impact with Earth—which could happen in 157 years—could cause a global winter and drought, modeling ...

Although the chances of impact are slim, Bennu is still one of the most potentially hazardous known asteroids in our solar ...

The rocky object called Bennu is classified as a near-Earth asteroid, currently making its closest approach to Earth every ...

NASA's watchful eye on the skies has recently spotted asteroid Bennu, a celestial body with a slim chance of impacting Earth.