2+ hour, 51+ min ago  (380+ words) There may be a river delta hidden under the obvious delta in a Martian crater. "I think it's a promising place to look for signs of biosignatures at depth," says Emily L. Cardarelli. "Microbial life could have potentially developed in those…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago  (776+ words) Is the global atmospheric commons destined to be an industrial waste dumping ground? The new study analyzed a plume of pollution trailing part of a Falcon rocket that crashed through the upper atmosphere on Feb. 19, 2025, after SpaceX lost control of…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (241+ words) Fossil beds in New Mexico show diverse species present in the late Cretaceous. Now, a new study has revealed that fossils we already know about originated within the last few hundred thousand years before the impact that killed off all…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1673+ words) AI is "comically good" at detecting small earthquakes'here's why that matters. On January 1, 2008, at 1:59 AM in Calipatria, California, an earthquake happened. You haven't heard of this earthquake; even if you had been living in Calipatria, you wouldn't have felt anything....

7+ mon, 1+ day ago  (48+ words) Ars Technica has been separating the signal from the noise for over 25 years. With our unique combination of technical savvy and wide-ranging interest in the technological arts and sciences, Ars is ... Visitors have unearthed over 35,000 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds…...

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1654+ words) A recent conference sees doubts raised about the age of the oldest signs of life. The question of when life began on Earth is as old as human culture. "It's one of these fundamental human questions: When did life appear…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1592+ words) "That's exactly the kind of thing that NASA should be concentrating its resources on." New details of the Trump administration's plans for NASA, released Friday, revealed the White House's desire to end the development of an experimental nuclear thermal rocket…...