We told you on Friday that The Odyssey cracked the $1 billion mark at the global box office, and Universal is making it known that as of today the feature take of Homer’s epic is now director Christopher Nolan’s highest grossing movie ever, ahead of 2012’s Dark Knight Rises ($1. 085B).
Boston College scientists have determined that a newly discovered meteorite from Mars is 1. 27 billion years old and derived from a previously unsampled, pristine source on the Red Planet. The study is published in the journal Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta.
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Two aviators will take off from Iceland to take pictures of the sun while flying at high altitude along solar eclipse’s path After lunch on Wednesday, two Nasa aviators will climb into a research plane and take off from Keflavik airport on a western tip of Iceland. They will climb north towards ...
Air-breathing electric propulsion could help satellites explore a new frontier, one that lies quite close to our planet.