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NASA records Martian lightning for the first time

For decades, scientists suspected that Martian dust storms might crackle with electricity, but they had never caught the ...

Colombia retrieves first artifacts from 1708 San José shipwreck

A cannon, hand minted coins and a vase: the first artifacts retrieved from the San José galleon GM Pulls Out of China: What ...

Amid 3I/ATLAS Buzz ESA’s Planetary Defense Team Detects The 40,000th Near-Earth Asteroid; Is The Planet Safe?

The Planetary Defence System of the ESA earlier identified the 40,000th near-Earth asteroid. The current tally since the ESA ...

Do NASA’s 3I/ATLAS photos show evidence of spacecraft targeting meteors in its path?: Harvard scientist

Harvard scientist Avi Loeb speculated that NASA’s recently released photos of 3I/ATLAS could potentially point to its ...

3I/ATLAS: Avi Loeb Argues Interstellar Comet May Be A Technological Artifact Like 1970’s Voyager 1

The Harvard astrophysicist urges the research community to include technological artifacts in the training data set ...
WBEZ

The Rundown: 3 generations combat Chicago’s ‘death gap’

In a city with a deep history of segregation, Chicago public health officials view the gap through the lens of race. They say ...
Family Destinations Guide

The Under-The-Radar Aviation Museum In Indiana You’ve Probably Never Heard Of

Nearby sits a UH-1 “Huey” helicopter, perhaps the most iconic chopper in aviation history. The sight of this helicopter ...

NASA Rover Makes a Shocking Discovery: Lightning on Mars

Lightning has been seen on other planets in the solar system, in the atmospheres of Jupiter and Saturn. Because Mars is cold ...

Scientists capture the crackling sounds of what they believe is lightning on Mars

Scientists have detected what they believe to be lightning on Mars by eavesdropping on the whirling wind recorded by NASA's ...

Perseverance rover spots mysterious 'visitor from outer space' rock on Mars surface after 4 years

NASA's Perseverance rover discovers shiny metallic rock on Mars that could be a meteorite from an ancient asteroid, ...
The New York Times

Almost Everything About NASA’s Latest Mission to Mars Is Unusual

The ESCAPADE mission, which launched to space on a Blue Origin rocket on Thursday, breaks the mold of how planetary science missions typically come together. By Kenneth Chang Kenneth Chang went to ...
ExtremeTech

NASA and Blue Origin Launch Pair of Mars Monitoring Satellites

This Thursday, Blue Origin successfully launched a pair of NASA spacecraft atop a New Glenn rocket from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The two spacecraft will study Mars' magnetic field ...