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- NASA and USGS are utilizing high-altitude AVIRIS-3 sensor technology to map lithium, cobalt, and other battery minerals across 366,000 square miles of the American West since 2023.
- Spectral detection accelerates upstream…
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Around 4.6 billion years ago, Earth looked nothing like the calm, blue world we see today. Repeated and powerful impacts from space kept the planet’s surface and interior in a turbulent, molten state. Much of Earth was covered by a global ocean…

Scientists have discovered a thriving hotspot of “weird” marine life more than two miles beneath the Arctic surface, marking the deepest known example of an environment called a gas hydrate “cold seep.”
The discovery was made in the…

Astronomers continue to track the mysterious interstellar visitor Comet 3I/ATLAS as it speeds through the solar system, using spacecraft and telescopes both in orbit and on Earth, News.Az reports,…

Roughly 560 million years ago, the first striated muscular system appeared in the cnidarian ancestor of jellyfish and corals. Haootia quadriformis, which lived anchored to the sea floor, likely used its new muscle fibers to grasp food, an…

The Moon is now a few days into the new cycle, so there is plenty to see when you look up in the sky tonight.
As of Friday, Dec. 26, the moon phase is Waxing…

Mirror photo by Colette Costlow /
Glendale science teacher Ethan Maneval points to the lightbulb in the center of the projector system in the Glendale Junior Senior High School planetarium.
FLINTON — Each year, Glendale Junior Senior High School…

By Christine Siddoway, Colorado College; Anna Ruth (Ruthie) Halberstadt, The University of Texas at Austin, and Keiji Horikawa, University of Toyama
Due to its thick, vast ice sheet, Antarctica appears to be a single, continuous landmass centered…

The Moon is now a few days into the new cycle, so there is plenty to see when you look up in the sky tonight.
As of Friday, Dec. 26, the moon phase is Waxing…

by Riko Seibo
Tokyo, Japan (SPX) Dec 26, 2025
Researchers from Beijing Institute of Technology, China Academy of Space Technology, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a theoretical model that links electrostatic…