Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...

That’s why NASA launched a mission to the near-Earth asteroid Bennu in 2016. In 2020, the OSIRIS-REx mission made history by ...

All water must be removed from the samples because the water would vaporize in the ... Most SEMs are extremely well shielded and do not produce exposure rates greater than background. However, ...

All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The efforts of microscopists have given aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy the power to reveal atomic structures with unprecedented precision. It is now up to materials ...

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 ...

"This transmission electron microscope is like a very powerful camera ... how they behave inside semiconductors and liquid water, and how chemical bonds between atoms rip apart.