Yesterday afternoon, space geeks around the country were on the edge of their seats awaiting news from NASA on the latest discoveries made by Mars rover Curiosity at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco. Anticipation began building two weeks ago after NPR quoted mission chief scientist John Grotzinger as saying […]
The Iron Man statue was taken from Tibet by the Nazis in the 1930s and brought to Germany. Elmar Buchmer, a geologist at the University of Stuttgart, says he believes it’s the only human figure ever to have been found that is carved out of a meteorite.
New data that’s just been released from NASA’s Mercury Messenger spacecraft could reveal how Mercury formed and changed over the 4.5-billion-year history of the Solar System. The planet appears to have shrunk as it has aged. Denton Ebel joins us.