The National Gallery of Art pairs art and science in a survey of some of the finest Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th ...

A new retrospective on the social realist artist presents the diversity of his career, and hints to how his Jewishness ...

China’s Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa (2016 HO3). The country could join the United States and Japan, whose space ...

China's Tianwen-2 asteroid sample return mission is set to launch this month, May 2025, en route to the asteroid Kamoʻoalewa ...

Professor Sara Russell, a cosmic mineralogist at the Natural History Museum in London and the ... discovered 11 different minerals in the sample from Bennu, including calcite, halite and sylvite.

The Grand Egyptian Museum, outside Cairo, has been delayed by revolutions, wars, financial crises and a pandemic. At long last, here’s a look inside. Visitors taking in the ancient pyramids of ...

Tantalizing evidence in the Bennu sample suggests that the asteroid contains constituents of the “primordial soup” that scientists believe likely led to life emerging on Earth. But that’s ...

The Ryugu sample showed a composition remarkably similar to that of samples from Bennu. Both asteroids contain clays, iron oxides, iron sulfides, and carbonates, suggesting they were altered by water.

Few places on Earth produce combinations of evaporites similar to those found in the Bennu sample. “One of the best studied is Searles Lake,” said Tim McCoy, a curator of meteorites at the Smithsonian ...