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A NASA Spacecraft Still Hasn't Spotted India's Ill-Fated Moon Lander

NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter has passed over the targeted landing site of India's Vikram spacecraft a second time and again has been unable to spot the vehicle. The Vikram lander was part of India's Chandrayaan 2 mission, and on Sept. 6, it was ...

NASA Contractors Build on Shuttle Legacy for Artemis Moonshot

WASHINGTON — NASA's suppliers for Artemis are working together more closely as the agency accelerates its moon plans to land humans on the surface by 2024, company representatives said. Speaking on a panel here at the International Astronautical ...

Fossils Reveal the Epoch When Mammals Filled Dinosaurs' Void

The New York Times

The New York Times

Some 66 million years ago, mammals caught their lucky break. An asteroid crashed into what is now Chicxulub, Mexico, and set off a catastrophic chain of events that led to the annihilation of the non-avian dinosaurs. That day began their furry ascension to ...

Here's How We Could Detect a Wormhole

Weird star wiggles could betray the presence of wormholes, if these fabled space-time tunnels do indeed exist, a new study suggests. Wormholes are sci-fi staples; over the years, many stories, books and movies have sent their protagonists zipping between ...

Bam! Scientists Watch Distant Exoplanet Collision

Astronomers love a hot mess — at least when it can tell them more about how solar systems work. When scientists studied a star system called BD +20 307 a decade ago, they saw a lot of warm dust. And when they checked in on the neighborhood again ...

Dynamic control of plant water use using designed ABA receptor agonists

Science Magazine

Science Magazine

Drought causes many billions of dollars of annual losses to farmers worldwide. Central to a plant's water use efficiency are signaling pathways regulated by the hormone abscisic acid and its receptors. Vaidya et al. screened a pool of candidate small ...

New process could make hydrogen peroxide available in remote places

Hydrogen peroxide, a useful all-purpose disinfectant, is found in most medicine cabinets in the developed world. But in remote villages in developing countries, where it could play an important role in health and sanitation, it can be hard to come by.

Robin Brett, NASA scientist who studied 'moon rocks,' dies at 84

Washington Post

Washington Post

Robin Brett, a NASA scientist who 50 years ago was among the first to study and direct research on lunar samples — popularly known as "moon rocks" — from the Apollo space missions, died Sept. 27 at his home in Washington. He was 84. The cause was ...

With NASA telescope on board, search for intelligent aliens 'more credible'

Astronomers dedicated to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) have announced a new collaboration with scientists working on a NASA telescope. So has alien hunting finally earned its stripes as a scientific discipline? To find out, AFP spoke to ...

Missing-Link Atoms Turn Up in Aftermath of Neutron-Star Collision

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

Two neutron stars smashed together and shook the universe, triggering an epic explosion called a "kilonova" that spit lots of ultradense, ultrahot material into space. Now, astronomers have reported the most conclusive evidence yet that in the aftermath of that ...