A NASA rover streaked toward a landing on Mars on Thursday in the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on…
Scientists have made one mammoth discovery – literally. The oldest DNA ever sequenced – more than 1 million years – has been extracted from three mammoth teeth that had been excavated from Siberian…
Teams in Italy worked to clean up the area surrounding Mount Etna Wednesday after the volcano spewed lava, ash and volcanic stones. Municipal teams largely anticipated activity from Etna, Europe’s most active…
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance will make its descent onto the red planet on Thursday, but there are a few hurdles to cross before it can land. The 2,260-pound rover — partly named in recognition of health…
NASA has unveiled the first pictures from its fifth Mars rover, Perseverance, after a successful landing on the red planet’s Jezero crater at approximately 3:55 p.m. Thursday. “This landing is one of those pivotal moments for NASA,…
“The building blocks of life exist all over Mars,” former NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine told “Your World” Thursday as the Perseverance rover successfully landed on the Red Planet. “Just in the last two years, Neil, we have discovered that Mars is…
Scientists announced the first successful cloning of a U.S. endangered species: a black-footed ferret. The animal, named Elizabeth Ann, was born Dec. 10 and announced Thursday. Willa, the ferret who served as…
Now that NASA’s Perseverance rover has successfully landed on the surface of Mars, it can begin the next steps of its mission. Perseverance — affectionately known as “Percy” — will search for…
NASA’s Perseverance team has already begun its work from Mars’ surface and released incredible images on Friday taken from the rover. In a news conference, experts said they could only hope the…