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India’s Mars probe has fuel for extended mission
India's Mars Orbiter Mission (MOM) was expected to end on March 24. But it turns out that the probe could have another 6 months of life left in it.
March 27, 2015
Curiosity rover detects nitrogen on Mars
The discovery adds to the evidence that ancient Mars was habitable for life.
March 27, 2015
Super salamander nearly ate our ancestors
The thing that got us off the hook? A big hot interception 200 million years ago.
March 26, 2015
Real Paleo Diet: early hominids ate just about everything
Hominids didn’t spread across Africa, and then the entire globe, by utilizing just one foraging strategy or sticking to a precise mix of carbohydrates, proteins and fats
March 23, 2015
Dawn breaks over Ceres … and perhaps reveals signs of habitability
The Dawn spacecraft is about to start its investigation of Ceres. Suggestions of icy volcanism have led to speculation that the dwarf planet could potentially be habitable.
March 18, 2015
Little auks adapt to warming Arctic
This little bird, that looks kind of like a flying penguin, has got scientists rethinking how polar ecosystems are changing in our warming world.
January 23, 2015
Amazing 44-second meteor might be space debris reentry
Video of an impressive and slow meteor seen over Puerto Rico on December 28. It might be a Falcon 9 rocket body falling from orbit.
December 31, 2014
Video: Moonlight skating in Sweden
"Nights like these are almost to good to be true." See this touching, just-released video.
December 11, 2014
Video: Chasing Starlight
Beautiful new time-lapse video from Jack Fusco, under Canada's dark skies.
December 9, 2014
Killing rats to save birds as glaciers recede
Glacier melt means rats can reach bird nests on South Georgia, an island north of Antarctica and east of the Falklands. What to do? Send in helicopters!
December 8, 2014
