Researchers Discover How Underground Rodent Wards Off Cancer
Second Mole Rat Species Has Different Mechanism for Resisting Cancer
Solar System's Birth Record Revised
THE SOLAR SYSTEM Some 4.567 billion years ago, our solar system’s planets spawned from an expansive disc of gas and dust rotating around the sun. While similar processes are witnessed in younger solar systems throughout the Milky Way, the formative stages of our own solar system were believed to have taken twice as long to […]
NASA's Curiosity Rover Provides Clues to Changes in Martian Atmosphere
NASA's car-sized rover, Curiosity, has taken significant steps toward understanding how Mars may have lost much of its original atmosphere.
Asteroid Vesta Has Unique Space Weathering
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The surface of the giant asteroid Vesta is weathering in a way that appears to be completely different from any other asteroid yet visited, according to new data recorded by NASA's Dawn spacecraft.