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Earth Sciences May 21, 2020

Project aims to create first 4-D maps of Earth's mantle

University of Liverpool scientists are part of an ambitious research project to map conditions underneath the surface of the Earth in unprecedented detail.

Astrobiology May 19, 2020

New study estimates the odds of life and intelligence emerging beyond our planet

Humans have been wondering whether we alone in the universe since antiquity.

Earth Sciences May 18, 2020

Discovery of unknown hydrogen in mid-ocean ridge points to hidden biosphere

By providing the first estimate of how much hydrogen is available to fuel microbial life in the sunless sub-seafloor crust beneath the Mid-Ocean Ridge (MOR), a new Duke University-led study sheds light on one of Earth's least ...

Earth Sciences May 12, 2020

Study suggests remnants of Bering Strait and other human migration paths exist underwater at 'choke points'

Today, sea-level rise is a great concern of humanity as climate change warms the planet and melts ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica. Indeed, great coastal cities around the world like Miami and New Orleans could be underwater ...

Space Exploration May 11, 2020

Dynamic orbital slingshot: A cool idea to catch up with an interstellar visitor

Poor, dim-witted humanity.

Space Exploration May 11, 2020

Listen to the sounds of BepiColombo's Earth flyby

Listen to the sound of BepiColombo's Earth flyby as captured in five recordings taken by two instruments aboard the Mercury Planetary Orbiter, one of the two orbiters comprising the joint European/Japanese Mercury exploration ...

Space Exploration May 4, 2020

NASA's Perseverance rover will look at Mars through these eyes

When it launches this summer, NASA's Perseverance rover will have the most advanced pair of "eyes" ever sent to the Red Planet's surface: Its Mastcam-Z instrument packs a next-gen zoom capability that will help the mission ...

Space Exploration Apr 23, 2020

The birth of a 'snowman' at the edge of the solar system

A model developed at the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, in collaboration with German scientists at Tübingen, explains the unique properties of Arrokoth, the most distant object ever imaged in the solar system. The research ...

Astronomy Apr 20, 2020

ALMA reveals unusual composition of interstellar comet 2I/Borisov

A galactic visitor entered our solar system last year—interstellar comet 2I/Borisov. When astronomers pointed the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) toward the comet on 15 and 16 December 2019, for the first ...

Astronomy Apr 16, 2020

CHEOPS space telescope ready for scientific operation

CHEOPS has reached its next milestone: Following extensive tests in Earth's orbit, some of which the mission team was forced to carry out from home due to the coronavirus crisis, the space telescope has been declared ready ...

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