[ad_1] Enlarge / New image of the entire hemisphere of Mars captured by the United Arab Emirates “Hope” probe. UAE Mission to Mars Since arriving on Mars eight months ago, the Emirates Mars mission has quietly begun to provide intriguing scientific data on the Martian atmosphere and its weather conditions. Named “Hope”, the probe is … Read more
[ad_1] About 100 million light years away, two galaxies give astronomers a glimpse of the fate of the Milky Way. So close that they are classified under one name, Arp 91, the spiral galaxies NGC 5953 and NGC 5954 are merging, with the matter of the second extending towards and into the first. Details of … Read more
[ad_1] A massive solar flare is set to hit Earth today, authorities are warning – potentially disrupting power grids and bringing the Northern Lights as far south as New York City. The eruption – officially known as coronal mass ejection (CME) – was observed on Saturday from the side of the sun directly facing our … Read more
[ad_1] Credit: CC0 Public domain A class of materials that once seemed capable of revolutionizing everything from solar cells to frying pans, but which fell out of favor in the early 2000s, may be poised for a commercial resurrection, suggest the findings of a research team led by the University of Michigan. Posted in Nature … Read more
[ad_1] October 16, 2021, NasaThe Lucy spacecraft will begin its journey to visit a record number of asteroids. The 12-year mission begins at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, where it will be launched aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V 401 rocket. From there, Lucy will be the first spacecraft to visit a record number of … Read more
[ad_1] Several asteroids comparable in size to the Washington Monument and the Great Pyramid of Giza will be heading towards Earth in the coming weeks, according to the NASA asteroid tracker. Each of these asteroids has an estimated maximum diameter of around 160 meters or more. This is remarkable, because an asteroid must be at … Read more
[ad_1] The oldest fingerprints made by pre-humans are over six million years old, scientists have revealed. About 50 of the tracks were identified near the village of Trachilos at the western end of the Greek island of Crete in 2002. They were found in a type of sedimentary rock that formed on the edge of … Read more
[ad_1] (News) – A woman in British Columbia was awoken on the night of October 4 to a crashing noise and the sensation of debris hitting her face. Ruth Hamilton looked up to see a hole in her ceiling and a stone on her pillow and called 911, not knowing what had happened. The truth … Read more
[ad_1] RAMON CRATER, Israel, October 10 (Reuters) – From the gate of the expedition base, a few paces to the left, an autonomous rover passes. A few giant steps to the right is a set of solar panels. The landscape is rocky, hilly, tinged with red. By design, he looks like Mars. Here in the … Read more
[ad_1] This side view of Paradoryphoribius chronocaribbeus shows what it looks like with a stereomicroscope. Ninon Robin (Harvard / NJIT) A long, long time ago, a tiny animal found its end in a sticky tree resin trap. Sixteen million years later, this tiny tardigrade fossil was discovered in Dominican amber. He is now a sort … Read more