The Gale Crater was chosen as Curiosity’s landing site due to the likelihood that it once held liquid water and, indeed, the rover found evidence that confirmed it was actually a lake as recently as … [+2257 chars]
Even NASA's next-generation space observatory can't manage to see supermassive black holes directly, but that doesn't mean astronomers can't use its data to better understand the mysterious behemoths… [+5258 chars]
When a daring team of engineers put a lander and the first rover on the Red Planet a quarter century ago, they changed how the world explores. On a July evening in 1997, Jennifer Trosper drove home … [+6161 chars]
Jul 27 2022Reviewed by Alex Smith Excessive cooling events, defined as Heinrich Events, in the North Atlantic during the last glacial period are a perfect example of how local processes affect globa… [+5360 chars]
New research has revealed that high-energy neutrinos and cosmic rays that bombard the Earth from deep space originate in blazars — actively galactic nuclei (AGN) that lurk at the center of galaxies… [+4832 chars]
Isolated mysterious blasts of intense energy that previously couldn't be traced back to galactic sources could originate from incredibly dim galaxies located as far away as 10 billion light-years. A… [+4332 chars]
A textbook process called “Ostwald ripening,” named after the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Wilhelm Ostwald, has directed the design of new materials such as nanoparticles for decades. These are tiny m… [+3492 chars]
This is pretty mind-bending. New Dimension Physicists say they've created a new phase of matter with an "extra" time dimension, according to a recently published study in the journal Nature. The r… [+2107 chars]
National University of Singapore chemists have discovered how acetate esters could be electro-synthesized from water and carbon monoxide in an environmentally sustainable way. The electrocatalytic r… [+2710 chars]
Astronomers have spied a "black widow" lurking in space 3,000 light-years from Earth, and it's a record-breaking cosmic object. Called a neutron star, the dense, collapsed remnants of a massive star… [+3448 chars]
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) NASA is launching two more mini helicopters to Mars in its effort to return Martian rocks and soil samples to Earth. Under the plan announced Wednesday, NASAs Perseverance… [+2757 chars]
What do building pyramids, going to the moon, paddling a two-person canoe or dancing a waltz have in common? All these actions are the result of a common goal between multiple partners and lead to a … [+5083 chars]
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