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The robotic arm on NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its percussive drill to core and collect the “Main River” rock sample on March 10, 2025, the 1,441st Martian day, or

Have you ever imagined what Antarctica looks like beneath its thick blanket of ice? Hidden below are rugged mountains, valleys, hills and plains. Some peaks, like the towering Transantarctic Mountains,

Photo courtesy of Andrew Wozniak, University of Delaware; HOV Alvin Team; Funder: NSF. © Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Scientists diving in the human-occupied vehicle Alvin recently witnessed a rare but

Planet-planet Binary – Grok via Astrobiology.com Significant numbers of free-floating planetary-mass objects have been discovered in nearby star-forming regions by the James Webb Space Telescope, including a substantial number (42)

Giant impacts are highly complex events with different processes dominating the dynamics of different regions of the colliding bodies. Illustrative time snapshots from an example SPH giant impact simulation with

Figure showing the contribution of different gases to the best-fit spectrum obtained from the free chemistry retrieval binned down to R∼200, for STIS+WFC3+NIRCam observations. — astro-ph.EP HD 209458 b is