Tag: soil

Tooth size in South American sea lions reflects historical shifts in population abundance

PALEONTOLOGY08/03/2025

A new study published in PeerJ reveals that the teeth of South American sea lions (Otaria byronia) hold valuable clues about past population dynamics. Researchers from the Instituto de Biología de Organismos Marinos, the Centro para...

Here’s a look at moon landing hits and misses

ASTRONOMY08/03/2025

Landing a spacecraft on the moon has long been a series of hits and misses. The latest casualty came this week after Intuitive Machines put another lander sideways on the moon through a NASA-sponsored program. Within 24...

Methods for building lunar landing pads may involve microwaving moon soil

MARS07/12/2022

Establishing a moon base will be critical for the U.S. in the new space race and building safe and cost-effective landing pads for spacecraft...

Glass beads in lunar soil reveal ancient asteroid bombardments on the moon and Earth

ASTRONOMY02/10/2022

In 2020, China's Chang'e 5 mission sampled more than a kilogram of moon rock and soil and brought it back to Earth. The samples...

NASA explains the mission to bring samples of Mars soil, rock and atmosphere back to Earth

ASTRONOMY04/07/2022

NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission aims to bring 30 samples of rock, soil and atmosphere now being collected by the Perseverance rover back to...

Team develops new method of hunting for carbon in soil without digging or taking soil samples

EARTH01/04/2022

Physicists and soil scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have teamed up to develop a new method for...