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NASA's Perseverance rover snapped a view of this odd rock on March 28. If you look closely just to the right of center, you can see a series of tiny marks where the rover's laser zapped it. The rover team said the rock is about 6 inches (15 centimeters) long and told space fans to look closely at the image to "spot the row of laser marks where I zapped it to learn more." The team has formulated many different hypotheses about this one -- is it something weathered out of the local bedrock? Is it a piece of Mars plopped into the area from a far-flung impact event? Is it a meteorite? Or something else? Publisher: CNET Author: Amanda Kooser Twitter: @CNET Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Not to change the topic here: We're already colonizing Mars. Sometime in April, the Ingenuity helicopter will take to the Martian air, making it, in NASA's words , "the first attempt at powered, controlled flig...

An artist's impression of a lensing event. Light (purple) bends around an object in space, like a black hole, splitting into different paths -- one arrives faster than the other. Scanning through a catalog of over 2,700 energetic deep space explosions captured by NASA's Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, James Paynter's task was to find a needle in a needle stack. The doctoral student, from the University of Melbourne, wanted to find one of the explosions, a gamma-ray burst, that had been "lensed" -- its path interrupted by a mammoth cosmic object on its way to the Earth. Publisher: CNET Author: Jackson Ryan Twitter: @CNET Reference: (Read more) Visit Source In case you are keeping track: A Coin-Sized Black Hole Would Destroy Earth—Here's How On March 29, a Reddit user posted an animation of what they claimed was a recreation of what would happen if a penny-sized black hole landed on Earth. It was late...

I was surprised when I learned that the first full moon of the year is called the Wolf Moon, and even more surprised when I found there is a moon-a-month. I just haven't been reading "The Farmer's Almanac" enough or I would have known there is a traditional name for every moon. The only one I am familiar with is the Harvest Moon because it is often mentioned. It is getting all the attention, deservedly so as it is bright and beautiful, but I believe every moon deserves to be recognized. Yes, I realize there is only one moon, but when it reaches its peak each month it has a traditional name. Publisher: Ellwood City Ledger Author: By Louise Carroll Reference: (Read more) Visit Source Other things to check out: The Full Moon and Easter | WOODTV.com The past few nights, we’ve enjoyed the full (or nearly full) moon.  The full moon of March is commonly called the “Worm Moon”.  The pretty pic. above was taken at Great Sa...

Publisher: NASA Date: 2021-03-30T08:50-04:00 Twitter: @NASA Reference: (Read more) Visit Source While you're here, how about this: Asteroid Apophis won't impact Earth for at least a century, NASA's Center for Publisher: ABC7 Los Angeles Date: 2021-03-30T11:18:38Z Twitter: @abc7 Reference: (Read more) Visit Source NASA Says Asteroid Apophis Isn't A Risk To Earth For 100 More Years : NPR NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab shows the orbital trajectory of the asteroid Apophis as it will pass by Earth in 2029. This week the space agency announced that the asteroid poses no risk of impact to Earth within the next century. Screenshot by NPR/JPLraw via YouTube hide caption Good news from NASA: Earth is safe from the dangerous asteroid 99942 Apophis for the next 100 years. So if you'd put this on your apocalyptic bingo card, you'll need to print new ones. Publisher: NPR.org Da...

Using data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the HARPS-N spectrograph at the 3.6-m Telescopio Nazionale Galileo, astronomers have discovered and confirmed an ultra-short period keystone planet orbiting an M2 dwarf (red dwarf star) called TOI-1634 . An artist's impression of the ultra-short-period sub-Neptune exoplanet TOI-1634b. Image credit: Sci-News.com. "Since its science operations began in July 2018, TESS has uncovered a wealth of transiting planet candidates whose orbital periods and radii lie within the radius valley , including three planets transiting early M-dwarfs: TOI-1235b, TOI-776b, and TOI-1685b," said Dr. Ryan Cloutier from the Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and his colleagues. Publisher: Breaking Science News | Sci-News.com Reference: (Read more) Visit Source And here's another article: Pomona-born astronaut answers students’ questions from orbiti...