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 ...

Deposits Found on a Nearby Asteroid Point to Salty Water in the Outer Solar System Scientists have uncovered salt minerals in ...

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 ...

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.

A team of researchers at Kyoto University have found evidence of salt minerals in samples recovered from Ryugu during the ...

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.