Category: 7. Science

NASA has a new high-tech sensor to help the search for critical minerals in the American West.

The sensor is called AVIRIS-5 (Airborne Visible/Infrared Imaging Spectrometer-5), and it comes from technology developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion…

Modern sightings of living coelacanths in the 20th century surprised the world, but this fish species’ story goes back a long way.

Although coelacanth remains are well known from Paleozoic and Cretaceous rocks in Britain, very little is known…

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A year of historic threats, unprecedented advocacy and a reminder that the future of space exploration is something we have to fight for, this week on Planetary Radio. I’m Sarah Al-Ahmed of The Planetary Society with more of the…

A distant exoplanet appears to sport a sooty atmosphere that is confusing the scientists who recently spotted it.

The Jupiter-size world, detected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), doesn’t have the familiar helium-hydrogen combination we…

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About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The study focuses on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast body of land ice in East Antarctica.

Altogether, Antarctica’s…

The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS made its closest approach to Earth recently on December 19, and apparently caused no harm,…