NASA re-establishes contact with Mars Ingenuity Helicopter

The majority of known asteroids orbit inside the main asteroid belt, which is positioned between Mars and Jupiter at an average distance of around 250 million km from Earth. Since the discovery of the first asteroid in 1801, about 750.000 asteroids have been identified, primarily in the last decade thanks to several optical surveys that examine the sky on clear nights.

The University of Delaware and the Argonne National Laboratory have developed a chemical process that converts Styrofoam into the high-value conducting polymer PEDOT:PSS. The researchers show how improved plastic trash may be successfully integrated into functional electronic devices such as silicon-based hybrid solar cells and organic electrochemical transistors.

It was North America's first total eclipse since 2017 and it won't appear across this part of the world again until 2046. For the first time in nearly a century, the western and northern regions of New York State saw a total eclipse.

Micromotors that move on their own have been invented by ICIQ researchers in Spain to filter wastewater. The process generates ammonia, which can be used as a renewable energy source.

A study found that Micron-sized microplastic waste can be carried across oceans and continents by the jet stream, and their shape influences how far they travel.

An antibody developed in the lab of Cold Spring Harbour Laboratory Professor Nicholas Tonks can inhibit an enzyme that may aid in the spread of some breast tumours. With additional research, the antibody could provide a viable therapeutic treatment for the same breast tumours.

Plant biologists at the DOE's Brookhaven National Laboratory in the United States have developed enzymes to change grass plants so that their biomass can be turned more efficiently into biofuels and other bioproducts.

Astronomers got a special treat on August 30 when a rare celestial event known as a Super Blue Moon became visible in the sky across the nation. A blue moon has nothing to do with the colour of the Moon. NASA defines it as the second full moon in a single month. "Once in a blue moon" occurs every two and a half years on average.

Recognising the benefits of imaging and spectroscopy, UBCO's Integrated Optics Laboratory (IOL) researchers developed imaging systems that use terahertz radiation.

The scientific community has definitely proven that Mars had habitable surface environments early in its existence. Water, energy sources, elements such as carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur, as well as crucial catalytic transition metals linked to life as we know it were all produced by these conditions. It is unknown, though, if that possibility sparked continued development towards the independent emergence of life on Mars.