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Scientists have published a huge study on near-Earth asteroids using data from the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico.

The National Science Foundation has awarded The University of New Mexico’s Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences (EPS) a two-year, $500,000 grant to establish the CONVERSE Center, a project that will set up the foundation for a new national center...

The western US is at risk of winter wildfire and burn flows and winter weather persists. Winter wildfires and burn flows are a possibility in the Western US as long as the winter weather lasts.

Since NASAs Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter began scouring the planet for them 16 years ago, Curtin University researchers have assisted in the discovery of the largest fresh meteorite impact craters on Mars, one of which contained ice at the lowest altitude ever observed.

The meteoroid was about 5–12 metres across, so it would have burned up in Earths thick atmosphere but stayed together in Mars thin atmosphere.

Uranus is a strange world, knocked on its side and with a lopsided magnetic field. Its moons may be even odder, and a mission to the system could revolutionize what scientists know about these worlds.

The MIT-developed Tool for Air Pollution Scenarios (TAPS) can be used to estimate the likely air-quality and health outcomes of a wide range of climate and air-quality policies at the regional, sectoral, and fuel-based level. 

Linking acoustic and seismic signals from meteorite strikes to orbiter images is a step toward mapping the planet’s interior.

Campus visits for the four candidates have been scheduled for November.

A toxin which makes pigs vomit and a Glasgow super-sleuth scientist may have finally unlocked the century-old mystery of the origins of a Martian…