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Garnet had never been confirmed in a Martian meteorite until researchers examining NWA 8171 at the Royal Ontario Museum found andradite inside a fragment smaller than one millimetre. Some surrounding minerals carry Martian chemistry, but scientists cannot yet tell whether it records an unknown magma, ancient fluid alteration, metamorphism—or debris from an asteroid that struck Mars.
8+ hour, 41+ min ago (766+ words) Andradite in the NWA 8171 Martian breccia is secure, but its tiny host clast could record Martian magma, alteration, metamorphism or material delivered by an impactor. By Deep Field · Edited by Lachlan Brown Published September 14, 2026 · How we edit A rounded grain…...
NASA lost a $125 million spacecraft at Mars because one engineering team used English units while another expected metric — the mismatch quietly pushed the orbiter onto the wrong trajectory after nine months in space
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (231+ words) A decade of planning and a quarter-billion dollars in funding vanished in seconds when two teams speaking different measurement languages sent a spacecraft crashing into Mars....
The United States is replacing every official latitude, longitude and height it publishes, existing coordinates will move by as much as four meters, and the million survey marks in the ground will no longer be what the system is measured from
4+ day, 3+ hour ago (43+ words) The National Geodetic Survey has spent years building a replacement for the reference system that fixes every published position in the country. New geodetic-control submissions into the old system stop being accepted after January 13, 2027....
Only two northern white rhinos are left, a mother and daughter who cannot carry a calf, and after 39 laboratory embryos and six transfers into surrogate mothers not one of the attempts has held
4+ day, 7+ hour ago (622+ words) Thirty-nine pure northern white rhino embryos have been produced, and as of April 2026 six of them had gone into southern white rhino surrogates in Kenya without producing a lasting pregnancy. Every recent egg collection has come from one animal, a…...
Bacteria living around the roots of rice plants can generate a tiny electrical current as they feed, and scientists in Bangladesh have tested the phenomenon in working paddy soil — producing electricity without reducing the rice harvest
5+ day, 1+ hour ago (232+ words) A team in Bangladesh has harnessed bacteria's hunger to generate electricity from rice paddies, proving that farming's oldest staple can double as a power source without sacrificing yield. Published September 9, 2026 · How we edit Somewhere under a flooded paddy, bacteria are…...
In 2024, scientists dyed Peter Lake blue with Aquashade to starve algae of light, but the water still turned green, and the team suspects repeated rain kept flushing the pigment out.
1+ week, 1+ day ago (201+ words) In summer 2024, Cascade Project researchers dyed Michigan's Peter Lake blue with Aquashade to limit light for algae, then added fertiliser; the lake still greened, and the team suspects rain flushed the pigment. By Deep Field · Edited by Justin Brown Published…...
After travelling 122 million miles in orbit, retired space shuttle Endeavour needed 68 hours to cover its final 12 miles through Los Angeles — crawling at no more than 2 mph as crews removed more than 400 trees to clear its 78-foot wingspan
1+ week, 6+ day ago (445+ words) A spacecraft that conquered zero gravity faced its greatest challenge on terra firma: twelve miles through suburban Los Angeles required removing 400 trees and sixty-eight hours of painstaking crawls. Published September 1, 2026 · How we edit Endeavour could cross the Pacific in about…...
Cameras on whale shark fins caught them feeding as deep as 68.8 metres
2+ week, 2+ day ago (322+ words) Camera tags went onto ten whale sharks at Ningaloo Reef and five came back with usable video. In 22 hours and 27 minutes of it, researchers scored 13 behaviours, eight of them feeding, and the deepest feeding they filmed reached 68.8 metres. Those eight…...
A creature that spends its entire life in crushing darkness a kilometre beneath the waves appeared, alive, at the sunlit surface off Tenerife in 2025, and marine biologists are still debating what dragged it up from a world it was never meant to leave.
2+ week, 4+ day ago (27+ words) The team from a Spanish marine research NGO called Condrik Tenerife had spent the day two kilometres off the west coast of the island, on their research...
China's water-hunting Moon mission was hours from launch on Sunday when the countdown stopped — the next window may not come until 2027
2+ week, 5+ day ago (571+ words) A scrubbed launch in the race to find water ice at the Moon's poles could cost China years in its push to establish the first permanent lunar base. By The Daily Orbit · Edited by Mal James Published August 25, 2026 · How we…...