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NASA is assembling the foundations of a future Moon Base through a wave of robotic missions and powerful new commercial landers。 More than 20 landings are planned through 2029, testing everything from precision landings and lunar communications to rovers, power systems, and technology that can survive the Moon’s extreme conditions。 Upcoming mission
NASA’s Curiosity rover has entered a Martian valley covered by an astonishing “sea” of tiny polygon-shaped fractures。 The honeycomb patterns, each only a few inches wide, stretch across the landscape and even wrap around a nearby 20-foot-tall butte
A forgotten fragment of a lost papal letter is offering a surprising new explanation for the Norman Conquest。 England may have backed the wrong pope during a bitter religious power struggle, giving Pope Alexander II a political reason to support William the Conqueror’s invasion。 The discovery suggests Harold’s downfall in 1066 was shaped by intrigu
JCB has invested heavily in hydrogen to power its diggers and other machinery
Stress may literally scramble the brain’s internal GPS。 Researchers found that cortisol, a hormone released during stress, made people significantly worse at navigating a virtual environment and disrupted the precise activity of grid cells, specialized brain cells that help us understand where we are in space。 When landmarks were missing, this navi
Andy Green, a 64-year-old retired Royal Air Force pilot from Britain, was already the only person to break the sound barrier on land。 “The ground comes at you very, very quickly,” he said
Hundreds of Homeland Security drones retasked to survey wildlife and livestock
Dinosaurs conquered the land at enormous sizes, but strangely, they almost never evolved into truly tiny animals。 New research suggests that physiology alone can’t explain this missing miniature end of the dinosaur spectrum—and that early mammals may have been partly responsible。 While dinosaurs kept mammals from becoming large, small mammals may h