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In Wummera, a dusty desert town in South Australia, scientists are getting ready. On December 6, 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Haibusa 2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth. It carries with it a surprisingly rare, precious and hard-won cargo – the planet collects …

In Wummera, a dusty desert town in South Australia, scientists are getting ready. On December 6, 2020, after six years in space, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Haibusa 2 spacecraft will finally return to Earth. It carries with it a surprisingly rare, precious and hard-won cargo – the planet collects …

Analyzing data collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover, scientists have discovered that a flood of incredible intensity was once washed away by the Gale Crater on the equator of Mars about four billion years ago. These findings, published in the journal Scientific Reports, point to the possibility of life on the …

Scientists have identified an old part of the Pacific Ocean – the ancient remnants of the ocean floor long before that – that stretches hundreds of miles below China in the transition zone of the Earth’s crust. The rocky slab that was used to line the bottom of the Pacific …

It is comforting to imagine that trained in the universe on both space- and earth-based telescopes, we could find asteroids of any dangerous size a mile away on our way, which would have plenty of time to color them white or explode them. . But every asteroid we see coming …