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A Marsquake Reveals Why Mars has Two Very Different Hemispheres

24th January, 2025

Researchers working with InSight data located six new Marsquakes that have helped them solve the Martian dichotomy.

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Could Ocean Worlds Support Life?

24th January, 2025

If Hycean Worlds exist, warm ones could be prime targets in the search for biosignatures. Colder ones not so much.

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Even More Planets Were Hiding in Kepler’s Fields

24th January, 2025

Kepler was one of the most successful exoplanet-hunting missions so far. It discovered 2,600 confirmed exoplanets – almost half of the total – in its almost ten years of operation. However, most data analysis focused only on one of the 150,000 targets it “intended” to look at. While it was making those observations, there were … Continue reading "Even More Planets We…

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Getting To Mars Quickly With Nuclear Electric Propulsion

23rd January, 2025

NASA is working on a Nuclear Electric Propulsion System that could shorten the duration of a return trip to Mars.

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Mars

Mars. An alien landscape. But could it – does it – or has it ever supported life?

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Lightning

We don’t know what causes lightning, how much of it there is, nor how to predict it. As global temperatures increase, so does lightning; as lightning increases, so do global temperatures. Its impact on atmospheric chemistry is still being explored.

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Geoengineering

Geoengineering the climate would mean venturing into new technology with huge consequences. But what might those consequences be and is there an alternative solution to anthropogenic climate change?

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Ambient chemistry

Chemists are exploring ways to mimic nature’s selective, low-temperature biochemical reactions that make delicate and reactive structures. Previously, chemists had copied high temperature geological reactions.

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Volcanoes

Volcanic eruptions can be hugely devastating events, wiping out towns and villages in the wake of the magma flows or ash clouds.

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Climate change, glacial recession and mammal communities

Saturday 14th of March 2020

Is there a ninth planet in our Solar System?

Thursday 22nd of September 2016

How were Mars’ moons formed?

Friday 1st of July 2016

100,000 Years Later

Saturday 6th of February 2016

Location, Location, Location

Monday 21st of September 2015

Collapsing Ice Shelves

Friday 5th of December 2014

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