PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of wet environments on Mars.
Physics professors Julia Thom, Eanna Flanagan and Yuval Grossman will host a forum for the public about the recent experimental results suggesting faster-than-light travel by neutrinos.
An asteroid the size of a city block will zoom by Earth inside the
orbit of the moon today (Nov. 8), but it poses no danger of smashing
into our planet, scientists say.