Scientists recently discovered that San Bernardino County's Searles Lake contains minerals found in outer space.

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Bennu is a potentially hazardous asteroid that has a 1-in-2,700 chance of striking ... To avoid contamination, the sample container was taken to a clean room before being opened. The researchers ...

These needles — roughly 10 times thinner than a human hair — are water-bearing sodium carbonates (or soda ash) found in the samples of asteroid Bennu ... The sample container was pumped ...

For months, NASA was unable to open the sample container from the Osiris-Rex ... a total of 121.6 grams of material from the asteroid Bennu to Earth, more than twice as much as planned.

A similar asteroid that arrived on Earth as a meteorite ... hydrated sodium carbonate salts highlighted in purple. The Bennu sample container. Credit: NASA "We're seeing minerals in Bennu samples ...

The US wants to put a flag on Mars. But there’s a risk it could carry unwanted stowaways that might compromise future ...

Scientists analyzing samples from asteroid Bennu have found something remarkable ... returned in an air-tight container and never subject to the ravages of Earth. "Discovery of diverse salts would not ...