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Here's what 6 years of driving on Mars did to the wheels on NASA's Curiosity rover (video)

May 8, 2026
A new time-lapse video from NASA’s Curiosity rover reveals years of punishing Martian travel, as its wheels churn steadily across the Red Planet’s rugged terrain. The video, captured by Curiosity’s right navigation camera, compresses more than six years of driving into about two minutes. Spanning from early 2020 to 2026, the footage looks back over the rover’s deck as its aluminum wheels…
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Nikon Action 7x50 binoculars review

May 7, 2026
The Nikon Action range is a new line of binoculars from the optics giant, released in March 2026 to take over from the company’s now-discontinued Aculon range, which some users felt was plasticky and didn’t have enough eye relief. They can also be seen as a cheaper alternative to the Action Extreme range, which, while waterproof, are a lot heavier and cost more due to their enhanced…
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NASA is making a powerful new ion engine to send astronauts to Mars — and it just passed its 1st test

May 6, 2026
A new ion engine has been tested in a lab, proving itself to be 25 times more powerful than NASA’s current state-of-the-art one. This advanced technology could one day assist humans in reaching Mars. Ion engines are very different to the usual sort of thrusters that burn chemical propellant. Using electromagnetic fields, they accelerate ions — charged atoms — out through a nozzle to provide…
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Our Milky Way's 'Zone of Avoidance' holds a galaxy supercluster with 30,000 trillion times the sun's mass

May 5, 2026
An enormous supercluster made up from over 20 individual galaxy clusters hiding behind our dusty Milky Way is even larger than astronomers had thought, affecting the motion through space of all the galaxies and galaxy clusters in our corner of the cosmos. The Vela Supercluster was discovered in 2016 thanks to a team led by Renée C. Kraan-Korteweg of the University of Cape Town in South Africa.
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