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Think science and religion don't mix? Don't tell that to Mars rover scientist Rev. Pamela Conrad

(CNN) When Rev. Pamela Conrad looks into the heavens, she really looks into the heavens. By night, and at odd moments during the day, Conrad moonlights as a research scientist at the Carnegie Institution of Science in Washington, DC. A member of the ...

Scientists say 90% of the world's open-ocean sharks died off in mystery extinction event 19 million years ago

The silhouette of a shark composed of fossil shark dermal denticles described in the study. (CNN) About 19 million years ago, roughly 90% ...

NASA spacecraft spots Chinese rover on Martian surface

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Spaceflight Now

The sharp-eyed camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has spotted China's Zhurong rover on the Red Planet, showing the craft next to its landing platform, with pieces of its heat shield and parachute nearby.

Will humans ever learn to speak whale?

Sperm whales are among the loudest living animals on the planet, producing creaking, knocking and staccato clicking sounds to communicate with other whales that are a few feet to even a few hundred miles away. This symphony of patterned clicks, known ...

Climate 'tipping points' could push us past the point-of-no-return after less than 2 degrees of warming

As climate change continues to heat the planet, ice sheets and ocean currents could destabilize each other, leading to a climate domino effect impacting 40% of the world's population, according to new research. And these effects could be seen at way lower ...

China Rover 'Zhurong's' Huge Hole Due to Mars Landing Hints Safety Issue for Big Landers, Scientist Says

The huge hole that the China Rover "Zhurong" bore in Mars after its successful landing hints an alarming safety issue that enormous landers should watch out for. On June 12, a scientist warned that due to the soft composition of the red planet, catastrophic ...

NASA to Develop an Asteroid Hunting Space Telescope to Watch for Possible Threats to Earth

The telescope increases their ability to observe and characterize any potentially hazardous asteroids, comets, and even stars within 30 million miles around the Earth's orbit. The device's working name is the Near ...

NASA Approves Near-Earth Object Space Telescope; Will It Improve Planetary Defense Efforts?

NEO Surveyor is a new mission proposal designed to discover and characterize most of the potentially hazardous asteroids that are near the Earth. "Each night, astronomers across the globe diligently use ground- ...

This ancient dinosaur would give today's blue whale a run for its money

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FOX Carolina

A person watches the northern lights on March 9, 2018, in Utakleiv, northern Norway. Olivier Morin/AFP via Getty Images.

Humans Could Possibly Produce in Mars: Sperm May Survive on Red Planet for Up to 200 Years!

Scientists previously assumed that space radiation would destroy human DNA, making reproduction impossible. Another issue was cancer induced by the radiation. Japanese researchers exposed mouse sperm exposed to high amounts of cosmic radiation for ...