The Smithsonian Institution is closing its diversity office and freezing all federal hiring. The decision will affect dozens ...
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Two new papers describe hints to a brine-filled environment on the 4.5-billion-year-old space rock and the presence of amino ...
A NASA spacecraft has returned asteroid samples that hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty ...
New findings reveal that a NASA mission traveled to an asteroid that may have once been covered in salty lakes containing ...
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 ...
Scientists have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in the samples collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission ...
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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An island ten miles off the coast of Maine with roughly 50 year-round residents represents centuries of ecological ...
Bao Li (BOW-lee) is a 3-year-old male. His mother Bao Bao was born at the institute in 2013 and his grandparents Tian Tian ...