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/PRNewswire/ -- To learn more about how terrestrial planets evolve over time, NASA selected the VERITAS and DAVINCI+ missions for its Discovery Program, both...

For the first time in over 30 years, NASA will be sending missions DAVINCI+ and VERITAS to Venus, an expedition expected to launch in the late 2020s.

NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth's nearest planetary neighbor became a hellscape while our own thrived.

Nasa says it will launch two missions to Venus in the hope of understanding more about the hellish world.

Imagesvenus20191211venus20191211-16.jpeg Venus hides a wealth of information that could help us better understand Earth and exoplanets. NASA's JPL is...

Sounders sign 16-year-old Reed Baker-Whiting Share this story Photo courtesy of Sounders FC The Seattle Sounders continued to add young talent, signing 16-year-old Reed Baker-Whiting to a Homegrown Player contract on Wednesday. The contract was announced as a four-year deal that has an option for a fifth year. He will be eligible for selection immediately. Baker-Whiting signed his first professional contract last July, becoming the youngest player the Tacoma Defiance had ever signed. “Reed ha...

Staten Island Tech admissions: See who got in this year Updated Apr 30, 2021; Posted Apr 30, 2021 The Department of Education has release admission data for the citys specialized high schools, including Staten Island Technical High School, indicating that racial disparities persist in the citys elite schools. (Staten Island Advance/Jan Somma-Hammel) Facebook Share STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Admissions offers for New York City’s specialized high schools have been sent out and longstanding trends...

reconstructed from sub-ice shelf and offshore sediments J.A. Smith; C.-D. Hillenbrand; C. Subt; B.E. Rosenheim; T. Frederichs ... Abstract: Because ice shelves respond to climatic forcing over a range of time scales, from years to millennia, an understanding of their long-term history is critically needed for predicting their future evolution. We present the first detailed reconstruction of the Larsen C Ice Shelf (LCIS), eastern Antarctic Peninsula (AP), based on data from sediment cores recove...

  OICR’s Drug Discovery Team is made up of 26 drug discovery scientists housed in state-of-art facilities with a mission to help Ontario’s researchers efficiently translate cancer related discoveries into novel oncology therapies. This team has “identified five of the most promising early stage oncology drug development projects in the province,” said Dr. Tom Hudson, the OICR’s president and scientific director. “OICR is pleased to support these Ontario-based research projects and ...

April 01, 2021 NASA’s InSight lander used the scoop on its robotic arm to begin trickling soil over the cable connecting its seismometer to the spacecraft on March 14, 2021, the 816th Martian day, or sol of the mission. Scientists hope this make it easier to detect marsquakes by helping to insulate the cable from the wind and from the extreme temperature shifts that cause the cable to expand and contract. JPL manages InSight for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. InSight is part of NASA’...