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Mars: how we discovered two huge, unusual impact craters – and the secrets they unveil
InSight’s dusty solar panel. NASA/JPL Benjamin Fernando, University of Oxford Most of the worlds of our Solar System…
Martian Sciences: Three Updates From the Red Planet
The mere thought of exploring our planetary neighbor has moved humanity to make leaps and bounds in its…
Engineering Feats: A Modern Sciences Lookback
By its own nature, the field of the engineering sciences is a constant well of new information and…
The Perseverance rover is collecting rock samples from Mars to bring back to Earth
Concept illustration for research robots that could bring samples of Mars rocks to Earth-based labs. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) Mariek Schmidt,…
Scientific History: Five Recent Achievements From Humanity’s Best
Our relentless pursuit of scientific improvement and innovation has led our best scientists and experts to worlds we…
Alien megastructures? Cosmic thumbprint? What’s behind a James Webb telescope photo that had even astronomers stumped
NASA / ESA / CSA / STScI / JPL / Caltech Peter Tuthill, University of Sydney In July,…
NASA successfully shifted an asteroid’s orbit – DART spacecraft crashed into and moved Dimorphos
The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the orbit of the small moonlet Dimorphos. NASA/Johns Hopkins APL David…
NASA crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid – photos show the last moments of the successful DART mission
Didymos (bottom right) and its smaller moonlet Dimorphos (center) were the targets of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test.…
For the first time, robots on Mars found meteorite impact craters by sensing seismic shock waves
NASA / JPL-Caltech Katarina Miljkovic, Curtin University Since 2018, NASA’s InSight mission to Mars has recorded seismic waves…
Why do we always need to wait for ‘launch windows’ to get a rocket to space?
NASA Gail Iles, RMIT University Earlier this week, the Artemis I Moon mission was scrubbed again; now we…