Maria Menounos Welcomes ‘Miracle Baby’ Via Surrogate After Cancer Battle
Maria Menounos is over the moon after welcoming her first child, a baby girl, via surrogate last month. In an Us Weekly story published Wednesday, Menounos, a former E! News correspondent, talked about her “miracle baby,” Athena Alexandra, and explained what it’s like to finally be a mom after a 10-year struggle with infertility and […]
Opinion | ‘Every Kid Dreams of Walking on the Moon, or Mars’: What We Heard This Week
“Every kid dreams of walking on the moon, or Mars.” — Nathan Jones, MD, of Springfield Memorial Hospital in Illinois, on his motivation to volunteer for NASA’s year-long simulated Mars mission. “You will be poisoned and you will die.” — Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), on the need for greater awareness about fentanyl’s potency at a […]
Differences between the Moon’s near and far sides linked to colossal ancient impact
The face that the Moon shows to Earth looks far different from the one it hides on its far side. The nearside is dominated by the lunar mare — the vast, dark-colored remnants of ancient lava flows. The crater-pocked far side, on the other hand, is virtually devoid of large-scale mare features. Why the two […]
Advanced analysis of Apollo sample illuminates Moon’s evolution
Sophisticated analysis of a rock sample taken from the Moon during the Apollo 17 mission revealed new information about the complex cooling and evolutionary history of the Moon. The findings, from University of Hawai’i (UH) at Manoa researchers, were published today in Nature Communications. Apollo 17 astronauts collected the rock sample troctolite 76535 from the […]
Early molten moon’s deep secrets
Shortly after it formed, the Moon was covered in a global ocean of molten rock (magma). As the magma ocean cooled and solidified, dense minerals sank to form the mantle layer, while less-dense minerals floated to form the surface crust. Later intense bombardment by massive asteroids and comets punched through the crust, blasting out pieces […]