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Space Exploration Aug 18, 2021

Curiosity Mars rover explores a changing landscape

A new video rings in the rover's ninth year on Mars, letting viewers tour Curiosity's location on a Martian mountain.

Astronomy Aug 5, 2021

Solving solar puzzle could help save Earth from planet-wide blackouts

Could solar storms knock out the global internet? Yes, but we don't know when or how it could happen. Mathematician Dr. Geoffrey Vasil has proposed a new understanding of the Sun's convection zone to help.

Astrobiology Jul 12, 2021

New type of cosmic dust in meteorite may reveal origins of water on Earth

Scientists have discovered a new type of star dust whose composition indicates that it formed during a rare form of nucleosynthesis (the process through which new atomic nuclei are created) and could shed new light on the ...

Other Jun 30, 2021

US intel report on UFOs: No aliens, but gov transparency, desire for better data might bring science to the UFO world

On June 25, 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released a much-anticipated report on UFOs to Congress. The military has rebranded unidentified flying objects as unidentified aerial phenomena—UAPs—in ...

Other Jun 24, 2021

Nanotech and AI could hold key to unlocking global food security challenge

'Precision agriculture' where farmers respond in real time to changes in crop growth using nanotechnology and artificial intelligence (AI) could offer a practical solution to the challenges threatening global food security, ...

Environment Jun 23, 2021

UN draft climate report: Impacts on nature

Climate change threats to life on Earth are systemic, interconnected and on a scale unprecedented in human history, the UN's climate science advisors have warned in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.

Space Exploration Jun 22, 2021

Space object with orbit stretching into the Oort cloud discovered

Astronomers Pedro Bernardinelli and Gary Bernstein discovered a space object recently that has an orbit around the sun and also stretches into the Oort cloud—they have named it 2014 UN271. The researchers made the discovery ...

Molecular & Computational biology Jun 12, 2021

'Space pups': Mouse sperm stored on ISS produces healthy young

Turns out the comic books were wrong.

Space Exploration Jun 7, 2021

What we would have learned from NASA's rejected missions to moons of Jupiter and Neptune

It's been 30 years since Nasa last visited Venus, with the Magellan orbiter in 1990. Now, two new missions have been selected to explore the deadly atmosphere, crushing pressures and volcanic landscape.

Space Exploration May 24, 2021

Solar storms are back, threatening life as we know it on Earth

A few days ago, millions of tons of super-heated gas shot off from the surface of the sun and hurtled 90 million miles toward Earth.

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