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NASA's Mars InSight lander snaps dusty 'final selfie' as power dwindles

NASA's InSight lander is completely caked with a thick layer of Martian dust in its latest selfie, which the agency says will likely be the last of the mission. The solar-powered InSight lander is only working at about one-tenth of its landing capacity ...

Watch a huge asteroid zoom safely past Earth, 10 times farther away than the moon

The space rock is known as asteroid 7335 (1989 JA) and is four times the size of the Empire State Building. While that's the largest asteroid flyby of 2022 yet, the rock will remain at a perfectly safe distance to our planet.

NASA praises Boeing's 'picture-perfect' Starliner mission

Boeing's Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) is officially a success. That's the verdict that leaders at NASA and Boeing gave during a press briefing on Wednesday night (May 25), a few hours after the aerospace giant's Starliner capsule returned to Earth to ...

NASA chief Bill Nelson urges action after 'heavy weight' of recent mass shootings

Referring to recent similar mass deaths by gun violence, Nelson said Americans have been murdered "while shopping at a Buffalo supermarket, while attending a Taiwanese Presbyterian church in Laguna Woods [California], and yesterday at an elementary school ...

Asteroid-mining startup AstroForge raises $13 million, books launch for test mission

AstroForge is young and very ambitious. The California-based startup, which was founded in January 2022, came out of stealth mode today (May 26), announcing that it aims to become the first-ever viable asteroid mining company.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover hears an alien soundscape that changes with the seasons

Cue Simon & Garfunkel — Mars is all about the sound of silence. NASA's Perseverance rover has been recording the ambient sounds on Mars for the past year, and scientists have trimmed those recordings to a five-hour "Martian playlist.

Human genome of Pompeii victim sequenced for the first time

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CNN

More than 2,000 people died as a direct consequence. The city was buried under a 23-foot-deep layer of ash and debris after the volcanic explosion, which preserved the ruins from the damaging effects of weather and climate.

NASA James Webb Target Acquired: A Super-Earth Covered in Lava Oceans

CNET

CNET

Oh, and a scorching exoplanet that probably doesn't have any air. Monisha Ravisetti headshot. Monisha Ravisetti.

Why did Mars dry out? New study points to unusual answers

Previously, many scientists had assumed that losing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, which helped to keep Mars warm, caused the trouble. But the new findings, published May 25 in Science Advances, suggest that the ...

How plate tectonics, mountains and deep-sea sediments have maintained Earth's 'Goldilocks' climate

The Earth evolved from a hothouse climate in the Cretaceous Period (left) to an icehouse climate in the following Cenozoic Era (right), leading to inland ice sheets. Credit: F. Guillén and M. Antón / Wikimedia commons. For hundreds of millions of years ...