Basketball-sized meteorites strike the surface of Mars every day

NASA’s InSight Mars Lander faced some challenges during its time on the red planet’s surface. Its mole instrument struggled to penetrate the compacted Martian soil, and the mission eventually ended when its solar panels were covered in dust. But some of its instruments performed well, including SEIS, the Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure. SEIS gathered […]

Iron Meteorites Hint That Infant Solar System Was More Doughnut Than Dartboard

eurasiareview.com - 23/Jun 22:57

Four and a half billion years ago, our solar system was a cloud of gas and dust swirling around the sun, until gas began to condense and accrete...

Basketball-sized meteorite hit Mars almost daily

theparadise.ng - 01/Jul 12:30

An international team of researchers, led by ETH Zurich and Imperial College London, have calculated the initial assessment of the global meteorite...

Chinese probe returns to Earth with samples from far side of the Moon

rawstory.com - 25/Jun 11:21

A Chinese probe carrying samples from the far side of the Moon returned to Earth on Tuesday, capping a technically complex 53-day mission heralded as...

Austral Plywoods approaches 100th birthday with new products

timberbiz.com.au - 03/Jul 01:14

Austral Plywoods has long been a staple in the Australian forest and wood products industry, known for supplying premium appearance-grade plywood for...

Culture Minister: Pan Bill will bring real benefits

newsday.co.tt - 05/Jul 20:19

RANDALL MITCHELL, Minister of Tourism, Culture and the Arts, said Trinidad and Tobago may derive real benefits from a bill to recognise the steelpan...

NASA’S ‘grow your own Mars home’ takes root

the-european.eu - 01/Jul 09:27

When it comes to the future of space exploration, we shiitake nothing for granted NASA has invested $2million in a project to create habitats on the...

NASA’S ‘grow your own Mars home’ takes root

the-european.eu - 01/Jul 09:27

When it comes to the future of space exploration, we shiitake nothing for granted NASA has invested $2million in a project to create habitats on the...

Book start-up looks to write green new chapter

centralnews.com.au - 04/Jul 09:43

Most of us have a collection of old, dog-eared books sitting around the house, collecting dust — expensive volumes crying out to be read, but which...