All forms of Earth life have specific chemicals in their makeup, such as amino acids and sugars. Scientists have known that ...

The building blocks for life, including salts, organic matter and amino acids have been found in samples returned to Earth ...

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 ...

The discovery is a capstone achievement for NASA, which went to great lengths to secure and deliver asteroid samples from ...

As such sodium is found naturally only in compounds and never as the free element. Even so it is highly abundant, accounting for around 2.6 per cent of the earths crust by weight. Its most common ...

If the drug is approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of acute pain in January as expected, the ...

The minerals McCoy’s team identified paint a picture of one possible environment present on rocky celestial bodies 4.5 billion years ago. The presence of evaporites means that sodium-rich water once ...

It took a while for scientists to gain access to the samples that NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission took from the asteroid Bennu, but ...

A little water helps expose the sodium so it can react with the chlorine gas. The reaction releases a lot of heat as the ionic compound sodium chloride is formed. A sodium and chlorine atom are near ...