Posted on March 22, 2025May 1, 2025Categories Science   Leave a comment on Scaling a mountain, NASA rover sends home glorious Martian view

Scaling a mountain, NASA rover sends home glorious Martian view

Extraterrestrial desert. Tens of millions of miles beyond Earth, a nuclear-powered, car-sized rover is climbing a Martian mountain. NASA’s Curiosity rover, while investigating Mars‘ past, has snapped over 683,790 pictures as it’s rumbled over 21 miles of unforgiving desert terrain since 2012, and a recent view shows the <a …

Posted on March 20, 2025May 1, 2025Categories Science   Leave a comment on Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy

Astronomers have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy

Prior theories said it shouldn't be there. Scientists using two enormous telescopes — one on Earth and the other in space — have detected oxygen in the most ancient known galaxy, a star-scape beaming light just 300 million years after the Big Bang. The galaxy, discovered with NASA‘s <a href="https://mashable.com/article/webb-space-telescope-first-image-targets" rel="noopener" …