一种彩虹色的狼蛛、一种毒蛇和一种手指呈钩状的毛茸茸的长臂猿之间有什么联系？它们都被列入了一份高度濒危物种的名单中，一英国慈善组织表示将于今年优先救助这份名单上的动物。

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In September, NASA announced the discovery of a possible sign of life, known as a potential biosignature, on Mars. The Perseverance rover, which has been exploring a dried-up lakebed for years, found ...

A newly identified region on Mars may hold the key to future human landings. Researchers found evidence of water ice less than a meter beneath the surface, close enough to be harvested for water, ...

After over 15 years, director Steven Spielberg is finally getting back into the world of alien invaders. Sure, as a producer, Spielberg has continued to attach his name to shows like Falling Skies and ...

The Mars Perseverance rover has been investigating the Jezero Crater and came across something that is not native to Mars at all. It is a meteorite that collided with the red planet. Though various ...

The skull contains bones that researchers have never seen before. A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will not be on ...

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Experts find that time moves faster on Mars by microseconds each day. Credit: Kevin M. Gill / CC BY 2.0 / Flickr Time on Mars ticks slightly quicker than it does on Earth, and scientists say this ...

The goal of sending astronauts to the surface of Mars has been a major point of contention, with the likes of SpaceX CEO Elon Musk arguing that we should skip the Moon entirely in favor of the Red ...

The best reason to send humans to Mars isn’t for guts or glory—or the construction of colonies to safeguard against existential Earth-bound risks. Instead it’s to answer a single, simple question: Is ...

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. In July of 2020, NASA engineers sent a rover named Perseverance hurtling into space. And ...