Scientists at the Field Museum can now get a glimpse of 4.5 billion years into the past. This is because the museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of a pristine asteroid. The little black ...

Researchers believe this 4.6-billion-year-old piece of rock could reveal compounds present at the beginning of the solar ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

The Field Museum received a rare, pristine sample of asteroid Bennu from NASA — a "time capsule" from the early solar system, untouched for 4.6 billion years. Scientists will study the carbon- and ...

The Field Museum is the new temporary home to a tiny piece of pristine asteroid. The fragment of the asteroid Bennu, on loan ...

WBBM’s Carolina Garibay visits the Field Museum to meet researchers who will be studying a more than 40 million-year-old ...

Not long ago, the idea of mining in space sounded like something out of a sci-fi novel. But today, it’s a field that ...

Things like asteroids or Ceres, a dwarf planet like Pluto which orbits in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. A new study in Nature Communications says carbon appears to be blown into ...

He noted, "Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt, and a dwarf planet ... Europa’s magnetic field measurements further support the presence of a salty ocean, making it a prime ...

observing the asteroid’s gravity field and collecting high-resolution images to make its surface. Dawn followed up by observing another asteroid in the belt, Ceres. In 2018, scientists published the ...

NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft in 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres, the two largest objects in the asteroid belt ... measuring its gravity field and taking pictures of landmarks to create a ...

NASA launched the Dawn spacecraft in 2007 to study Vesta and Ceres, the two largest objects in the asteroid belt ... measuring its gravity field and taking high-resolution images to create ...