This mineral — halite — gets harvested by drilling the rock face, crushing the salt, and splintering it into pieces. So is pink salt intrinsically healthier, and therefore should cost more?

Researchers are unlocking secrets of our solar system by analyzing asteroid Bennu samples, some of the most pristine ever ...

For instance, halite — the natural form of sodium chloride (NaCl), from which table salt is made — is a soft mineral that forms clear, cube-shaped crystal fragments. Different minerals ...

Sylvite (potassium chloride) and halite (sodium chloride; common table salt) form late in salty, evaporating fluids. As in this sample, these two minerals are found in association in Bennu.

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 ...

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 ...

the Bennu asteroid samples contain six of the same minerals observed at San Bernardino County’s Searles Lake: calcite, dolomite, gaylussite/pirssonite, thénardite, trona and halite.