Written by Lucy Lim, Planetary Scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Earth planning date: Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 Following the Basque Lakes drill campaign, Curiosity has returned to a spot just a few meters away from the “Chiu Chiu” block to conduct our next drill campaign. “Chiu Chiu” itself wasn’t a good candidate for
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You might’ve seen recent reports of users complaining that they’ve slept through alarms set on their iPhones–or even encountered it yourself. But it’s not a new bug. The silent iPhone alarm issue has plagued users for at least a couple of years, and still keeps affecting people (even though Apple has previously promised to fix
The $899 Mac mini was the first machine to get Apple’s M6 chip back in August, and now it moves into two Macs with built-in displays: the 14-inch MacBook Pro at $1,999 and the iMac at $1,499. Preorders open October 28, and deliveries start November 6. It’s the same 2nm chip in all three, and
The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) has released the public’s best look yet at Shenlong, China’s ultra-secret space plane. Details remain scarce on the experimental reusable vehicle, but the unclassified photo offers an unprecedented glimpse of the craft from below, as well as clear views of its unique, rear-facing solar panel arrays. The photo was taken
In August of 1984, commercial peat cutters working near Wilmslow, about a half-hour drive south of Manchester, England, discovered a dead body in the moss. The corpse was determined to be a 25-year-old man with a closely shorn beard and well-manicured nails. He had suffered two or three heavy blows to the head, and had