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New Insight Into Formation Of Ancient Continents
10+ hour, 2+ min ago (316+ words) An international team of researchers' analysis of minerals from the Pilbara region of Western Australia has given new insight into how ancient continents on Earth formed as far back as 3. 5 billion years ago. Professor Tony Kemp, from The University of…...
Australian-first Facility To Back Critical Minerals
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (362+ words) New critical minerals facilities in Sydney will support the push to refine more minerals in Australia that are essential for renewable energy technology and defence applications. Minister for Resources and Northern Australia Madeleine King opened the new facilities at Australia's…...
NASA Receives Moon Lander Cabin for Artemis Training
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (523+ words) Mirage News A full-scale mock-up of a crew cabin for a future industry lunar lander for NASA's Artemis program now is operational for training and testing. The agency and its industry partners will use Blue Origin's Blue Moon Mark 2 crew…...
Unlocking Mystery Of X-ray Dots
4+ day, 20+ hour ago (230+ words) Mirage News A new "X-ray dot" found by NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory - which could look like this artist's illustration released on April 28, 2026 - could explain what the hundreds or potentially thousands of these objects are. Shortly after NASA's James Webb Space…...
NASA EClips, GLOBE Boost STEM in Coastal Virginia
5+ day, 13+ hour ago (566+ words) Mirage News Thirty-eight science educators representing seven school districts across Virginia's Tidewater region joined forces with community organizations, such as the Elizabeth River Project, to deepen their instructional practice through a dynamic collaboration between NASA e Clips and the GLOBE…...
Perseverance Rover Explores Crocodile Bridge on Mars
5+ day, 14+ hour ago (267+ words) Jezero Crater's rim and the regions around it hold some of the oldest rocks anywhere in the solar system; they serve as time capsules of the Red Planet's early history, when its crust and atmosphere were still forming. No terrain…...
650 NASA Volunteers Have Co-Authored Scientific Papers
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (305+ words) After a recent count, NASA Citizen Science is proud to report that more than 650 people who have volunteered to participate in NASA citizen science projects have co-authored peer-reviewed research papers with scientists on those project teams. These volunteers made incredible…...
LAGEOS: Earth Science Mission Ensures Lasting Precision
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (388+ words) Mirage News On May 4, 1976, a spacecraft resembling a disco ball entered orbit almost 3, 700 miles (6, 000 kilometers) above Earth. This shiny, two'foot'wide (60'centimeter) sphere called the Laser Geodynamics Satellite, or LAGEOS, is covered with 426 retroreflectors-small mirrored prisms designed to bounce laser light…...
Record-Setting Retreat Of Hektoria Glacier
6+ day, 21+ hour ago (76+ words) Mirage News You might also like The Science of Antibiotic Resistance and the Fight Back Mushroom Clouds to Near Misses: 10 Nuclear War Movies World's Rarest Flowers: A Look at Nature's Hidden Jewels Cognitive Cooking: New Role of AI in Culinary…...
Fault Systems Map Magma's Path, Control Volcanic Unrest
2+ week, 4+ day ago (608+ words) Major geological faults and fractures in the Earth's crust can both guide rising magma and help prevent volcanic eruptions, according to an international team of researchers. Their study examined a "stealth" injection of magma, which travelled undetected through an existing…...