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New photos from Ingenuity's 9th flight help refine science goals for Perseverance

Images taken by the Ingenuity helicopter reveal details of the surface of Mars that can't be seen with orbiting cameras. NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter captured this image of tracks made by the Perseverance rover during its ninth flight, on July 5 2021.

NASA is mapping out plans for bigger, more capable Mars helicopters

Given the highly successful and ongoing flights of NASA's Ingenuity Mars helicopter, engineers are turning their attention to future aerial craft for the Red Planet. One concept is the Mars Science Helicopter, advocated as a way to greatly expand the ...

The hunt for wormholes: How scientists look for space-time tunnels

For centuries we thought we knew how gravity worked, thanks to Isaac Newton. Apples fell to the ground, and Earth stayed in orbit around the sun because of a gravitational pull between the objects. Yet Einstein saw it differently, suggesting that what we ...

Strange chemical on Venus may come from volcanoes, not life

Now, a pair of planetary scientists suggest explosive volcanic eruptions could also spew phosphine into the Venusian atmosphere. "We may be witnessing active volcanism on Venus," study lead author Ngoc Truong, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in ...

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What Will Our First Image Of 'Earth 2.0' Look Like?

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As seen from up close, the signs of not only life, but our intelligent, technologically advanced human civilization are unmistakable. Our planet contains continents, oceans, and partial cloud cover, as well as polar icecaps. As the seasons change, the continents ...

A lander on Jupiter's icy moon Europa may have to dig at least 1 foot down to find signs of life

This ocean appears to be in contact with the 1,940-mile-wide (3,100 kilometers) moon's rocky core, making possible a range of complex chemical reactions. As a result, Europa is generally regarded as one of the solar system's best bets to harbor alien life.

The demonstration of ultrafast switching to an insulating-like metastable state

Terahertz pulse-driven amplitude mode oscillation of charge density wave order in transition metal dichalcogenide with a honeycomb lattice, 3R-TaSe2, that causes the emergence of a hidden insulating-like state. Credit: Yoshikawa et al.

Pristine DNA recovered from 1600-year-old sheep mummy

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A lone sheep leg, likely discarded by hungry mine workers, lay hidden in a salt mine in Iran for over a thousand years, during which time the salinity of the surrounding environment naturally mummified the limb. Now, scientists have extracted pristine DNA from ...

Newly discovered planets could help scientists learn more about Earth's 'teenage' years

The exoplanets reside around 130 light years away and orbit two known stars, TOI 2076 and TOI 1807, which can be found in the constellations of Boötes and Canes Venatici, respectively.

Discovery of 10 faces of plasma leads to new insights in fusion and plasma science

The discovery by theorists at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) found that a magnetized plasma has 10 unique phases and the transitions between them might hold rich implications for practical development.