Despite a shortage of rock salt and ice melt in some Massachusetts communities this winter, some in the Attleboro area say ...

Asteroids that orbit close to the Earth inevitably cause us some anxiety due to the even remote possibility of a collision.

Asteroid Bennu’s samples contain pristine salts, hinting at ancient briny environments that could have formed organic ...

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission uncovered a cosmic connection between asteroid Bennu and Earth’s Searles Lake. Both contain minerals formed by evaporating salty water, hinting that Bennu’s parent body once ...

A statewide rock salt shortage is affecting the SUNY Brockport campus, leading to growing safety concerns. While this impacts ...

Consumers in Niskayuna and surrounding areas are finding salt in short supply, not due to a shortage, but because of ...

The asteroid Bennu has provided groundbreaking insights into the chemistry that may have set the stage for life in the early ...

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

At the risk of pouring more salt into the wound of our long and wicked winter weather, Ottawa is the Canadian road salt champion. We use more rock salt compounds — an average of 156,000 metric tonnes ...

Whether you want to gain some extra traction on snow and ice or just melt it, having rock salt, sand, or just basic cat litter can help immensely. But is there actually a difference? And more ...

“We were surprised to identify the mineral halite, which is sodium chloride — exactly the same salt that you might ... in a cosmic collision. As water-rock interactions occurred in this ...