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On Mars, deep-water diversity has stood the test of time, meteorites show

The water buried deep within Mars likely came from at least two very different sources long ago, a new study suggests. "These two different sources of water in Mars' interior might be telling us something about the kinds of objects that were available to ...

Astronauts could use their own urine to build moon bases one day

When humans return to the moon to stay, where will they live? Well, it turns out they might live in lunar bases made of astronaut pee. In a new study, researchers have found that urea, the major organic compound found in human urine, could be useful for ...

Philip W. Anderson, Nobel Laureate in Physics, Is Dead at 96

The New York Times

The New York Times

Philip W. Anderson, an American physicist whose explorations of electronic behavior in solid materials like glass, crystals and alloys led to a Nobel Prize and deepened science's understanding of magnetism, superconductivity and the structure of matter, died ...

Meteorites reveal that Martian water came from different sources

CNN

CNN

(CNN) One of the biggest mysteries in piecing together the story of Mars' past is a key question: Where did the water come from? Researchers may have found a large clue in tiny slices from Martian meteorites that fell to Earth, according to a new study.

NASA's Mars Helicopter makes last spin on Earth before before July launch

NASA's next mission to Mars will carry what is meant to become the first aircraft to fly on another planet, and that experimental helicopter just spun its blades on Earth for the last time. The Mars Helicopter is scheduled to launch in July with the new Mars rover, ...

EarthSky

What is dark energy?

EarthSky

Dark energy is one of the great unsolved mysteries of cosmology. It's now thought to make up 68% of everything in the universe. Sharing is caring! Tweet. Share. Pin. Mail. Share. Three boxes outlined with red with what looks like expanding lightning inside ...

ESA to conduct BepiColombo flyby amid coronavirus crisis

Controllers at ESA's mission control center are preparing for a gravity-assist flyby of the European-Japanese Mercury explorer BepiColombo. The maneuver, which will see the mission adjust its trajectory by harnessing Earth's gravitational pull as it swings ...

Popular Science

There's a giant blank spot in researchers' ever-growing map of the solar system. Over the last two decades, a veritable fleet of probes has measured quakes on Mars, scrutinized the grooves in Saturn's rings, observed jet streams on Jupiter, and heard the ...

A Martian mash up: Meteorites tell story of Mars' water history

In Jessica Barnes' palm is an ancient, coin-sized mosaic of glass, minerals and rocks as thick as a strand of wool fiber. It is a slice of Martian meteorite, known as Northwest Africa 7034 or Black Beauty, that was formed when a huge impact cemented together ...

Tiny optical cavity could make quantum networks possible

Engineers at Caltech have shown that atoms in optical cavities—tiny boxes for light—could be foundational to the creation of a quantum internet. Their work was published on March 30 by the journal Nature. Quantum networks would connect quantum ...