In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 ...

Pyrite is far from the only mineral that creates cubic crystals. Halite, commonly recognized as table salt (NaCl), often forms transparent, cube-shaped crystals due to the orderly arrangement of ...

When we analyzed the interior of Bennu's dust particles, we were surprised to find tiny crystals of the salt minerals known as halite and sylvite. This was a breakthrough discovery. Halite is ...