Discoveries of clay minerals in Martian mounds by researchers indicate that Mars once had large bodies of water billions of ...

Dead Vlei, a white clay pan situated near the famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, is in fact the world’s oldest desert. Located in ...

Buttes and mesas in Mars' Chryse Planitia contain clay minerals made from liquid water interacting with the rock nearly 4 ...

The Sahara is often thought of as the driest desert in the world, but there is in fact a desert that is even older and more ...

In Spanish, the word “lajitas” means “little flat rocks.” In the Big Bend region of West Texas, though, Lajitas stands for an ...

Two new studies show a briny, carbon-rich environment on the parent body of the Bennu asteroid was suitable for assembling ...

When our first populist president, Andrew Jackson, claimed that his 1832 reelection constituted a broad mandate for his ...

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 finally had a close look at the rubble collected by a spacecraft from the asteroid Bennu. Here's what they found inside and what it could tell us about the origin of life on Earth.

Joan Ellen McCarley Joan Ellen McCarley passed away on March 10, 2024 at age 100 in Palm Desert, California. She was born in Los Angeles, California, to ...