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New images from NASAs Mars InSight lander show its robotic arm is ready to do some lifting. With a reach of nearly 6 feet (2 meters), the arm will be used to pick up science instruments from the landers deck, gently setting them on the Martian surface at Elysium Planitia, This has been an intense year for Ariane 6 development, with progress boosted across Europe: plants are manufacturing new parts using novel methods, all engines have been tested, and the construction of launch facilities is well underway.. BRINGING BALANCE TO THE UNIVERSE: NEW THEORY COULD EXPLAIN MISSING 95 PERCENT OF THE COSMOS. Scientists at the University of Oxford may have solved one of the biggest questions in modern physics, with a new paper unifying dark matter and dark energy into a single phenomenon: a fluid which possesses negative mas*. If you were to push a negative mas*, it would accelerate towards you. This astonishing new theory may also prove right a prediction that Einstein made 100 years ago. UC Davis researchers conclude that the Earth formed relatively quickly from this cloud of dust and gas, collecting water, carbon and nitrogen The Earth formed relatively quickly from the cloud of dust and gas around the Sun, trapping water and gases in the planets mantle, according to research published Dec. 5 in the journal Nature. Apart from settling Earths origins, the work could help in identifying Experiments in forest observation, protein crystal growth and in-space fuel transfer demonstration are heading to the International NASA under the agencys Commercial Resupply Services contract. The SPECU*OOS project has made its first observations at the European Southern Observatory’s Paran*l Observatory in northern Chile. SPECU*OOS will focus on detecting Earth-sized planets orbiting nearby ultra-cool stars and brown dwarfs. Yale scientists are part of a new international experiment that challenges previous claims about the detection of non-luminous dark matter. Astrophysical evidence suggests that the universe contains a large amount of non-luminous dark matter, yet no definite signal of it