When Apollo 17 astronauts collected a small rock from the moon more than 50 years ago, they had no way of knowing it would still be challenging scientists' understanding of lunar history today.
Planetary Sciences
Sep 25, 2025
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A surprising discovery has been made behind an inconspicuous hole in a wall at the Academic Museum of Art in Bonn: a roughly 200-year-old cornerstone dating back to the building's construction. A lead plate concealed inside ...
Archaeology
Sep 22, 2025
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A supply ship arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday after a day's delay due to a premature engine shutdown.
Space Exploration
Sep 18, 2025
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After nearly five months onboard the International Space Station, an international crew of four astronauts began their descent back down to Earth on a SpaceX capsule Friday.
Space Exploration
Aug 9, 2025
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In nature, the concept of chirality or "handedness" is fundamental to life itself, just as our left and right hands are mirror images that cannot be overlapped perfectly. Molecular handedness is crucial in biological systems—the ...
Analytical Chemistry
Aug 5, 2025
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A smartphone-controlled ingestible capsule that can control and allow for two-way communication with gut bacteria in pigs is reported in Nature Microbiology. The findings could lay the foundation for new diagnostic and treatment ...
Biotechnology
Jul 29, 2025
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The discovery of more than 15,000 kilometers of ancient riverbeds on Mars suggests that the Red Planet may once have been much wetter than previously thought.
Planetary Sciences
Jul 9, 2025
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We've sent some pretty interesting payloads to space since the first satellite (Sputnik 1) launched on October 4, 1957. As access to space has increased, thanks largely to the commercial space industry, so too have the types ...
Space Exploration
Jul 1, 2025
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A NASA team specializing in collecting imagery-based engineering datasets from spacecraft during launch and reentry is supporting a European aerospace company's upcoming mission to return a subscale demonstration capsule ...
Space Exploration
Jun 19, 2025
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Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections—and these collections may also contain information needed to prevent, prepare for, and respond to potential future ...
Ecology
Jun 3, 2025
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