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- From Around the Web, Space
- February 13, 2019
New images reveal the skinny side of the Kuiper Belt object

New images reveal the skinny side of the Kuiper Belt object

If you’ve seen something strange in the sky over Central Jersey — and you haven’t been enjoying an adult beverage or suffering from a lack of sleep — you’re not alone.

Opportunity has been silent for months after a global dust storm on Mars.

New research suggests liquid water is present beneath the south polar ice cap of Mars. Now, a new study argues there needs to be an underground source of heat for liquid water to exist underneath the polar ice cap.

It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie, but it’s a wild possibility scientists are actually exploring: how to fit a space station inside an asteroid.

Stonehenge may be the most famous example, but tens of thousands of other ancient sites featuring massive, curiously arranged rocks dot Europe.

“Draw a picture that will show the shape of the object or objects.”

An international team led by the Innsbruck geologists Arata Kioka, Tobias Schwestermann, Jasper Moernaut, and Michael Strasser could quantify for the first time the entire trench-wide volume of marine sediments that were remobilized by the magnitude 9 Tohoku-oki earthquake in 2011 and transported into the up to 8 km deep Japan Trench.

Assessment pushes new rock up the danger list, but possibility remains very remote. Andrew Masterson reports.

The genetic footprint of a “ghost population” may match that of a Neanderthal and Denisovan hybrid fossil found in Siberia






























































