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The 'Mole' on NASA's InSight Mars Lander Just Popped Out Of Its Hole (and That's Not Good)

A metal mole's up-and-down saga on Mars has taken yet another turn. The burrowing heat probe aboard NASA's InSight Mars lander was originally supposed to dig 10 to 16 feet (3 to 5 meters) beneath the planet's red dirt, using a self-hammering tool called ...

Off-World Series! NASA's 'Astros' Play Baseball on Space Station (Video)

NASA astronauts high above Earth are getting into the swing of the World Series. Jessica Meir, Christina Koch and Drew Morgan played a little baseball aboard the International Space Station (ISS) recently to celebrate the ongoing Fall Classic, which pits the ...

Asteroid Hygiea May Be the Smallest Dwarf Planet in the Solar System

The asteroid Hygiea may qualify as a dwarf planet — and it could steal the title of the smallest dwarf planet in the solar system! Astronomers have captured high-resolution imagery of Hygiea, the fourth largest rock in the Asteroid Belt. And low and behold, ...

It's an asteroid! No, it's the new smallest dwarf planet in our solar system

CNN

CNN

(CNN) A large asteroid could be reclassified as a dwarf planet -- which could make it the smallest in the solar system -- after new research revealed it's shape, astronomers said on Monday. Nestled in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter is an object that ...

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HHU-led research consortium wants to eliminate dangerous plant diseases in rice

EurekAlert (press release)

Rice is the number one staple food for the world's poorest and undernourished people. More than half of the world's population eats rice every day. In sub-Saharan Africa, rice is the fastest growing food source that provides more food calories than any other ...

Scientists Think They've Found 'Mitochondrial Eve's' First Homeland

Livescience.com

Livescience.com

Two hundred thousand years ago, the earliest shared ancestors of every living human on Earth rested their feet at a verdant oasis in the middle of Africa's Kalahari Desert. Here, in a patchwork of now-extinct lakes, forests and grasslands known as the ...

Did asteroid collision trigger Earth's abrupt cooling 12800 years ago?

EarthSky

EarthSky

Why did Earth's climate rapidly cool 12,800 years ago? New evidence suggests that a comet or asteroid collision is to blame, with support coming from the bottom of a South Carolina lake. arrow. Sharing is caring! 0. Tweet. 0. Share. 0. Pin. 0. Mail. 0. Share.

Protected: DESI's 5000 eyes open as Kitt Peak Telescope prepares to map space and time

A new instrument on the 4-m Mayall telescope has opened its array of thousands of fiber-optic "eyes" to the cosmos and successfully captured the light from distant galaxies. The milestone marks the beginning of final testing for the Dark Energy Spectroscopic ...

New VIPER lunar rover to map water ice on the moon

NASA is sending a mobile robot to the South Pole of the moon to get a close-up view of the location and concentration of water ice in the region and for the first time ever, actually sample the water ice at the same pole where the first woman and next man will ...

Super New Telescope Opens Its Eyes For The First Time

Forbes

Forbes

Like many of us of a certain age, the universe is getting bigger. That's not so surprising – scientists have known this since 1927, when Belgian priest Georges Lemaître published a paper that proposed what is now called the theory of the Big Bang. The Big ...