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

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

Bennu may have once provided a compatible environment. Another study in Nature detected a cornucopia of minerals akin to brine on Earth—potentially a sign of water in the past. These salt-crusted ...

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The latest results suggest this parent body had an extensive underground network of lakes or even oceans, and that the water evaporated away, leaving behind the salty clues. Sixty labs around the ...

Bennu, a rocky object classified as a near-Earth asteroid, has a one-in-2,700 chance of colliding with Earth, a study has ...

These discoveries suggest that Bennu's parent body harbored pockets of liquid water billions of years ago. These brines, similar to those observed in dried-up terrestrial lakes, could have served as a ...

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A scary-looking creature with “devil” in its name was spotted close to the surface off Tenerife, a Spanish island.