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No Joke! Uranus Stinks

Patrick Irwin, of Oxford University in England, and his colleagues have studied the air around Uranus, and found, among other things, that it stinks. Its most unpleasant smell is caused by hydrogen sulfide, the molecule that gives rotten eggs their unmistakable odor. Using the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), an instrument on the 26-foot Gemini […]

Alien Head On Mars

An image first published by NASA in 2005 is currently making headlines. It is a photograph of a large alien-like head, located on Mars. NASA has described it as resembling a bug-eyed head. It also has deep furrows in its forehead, giving it even more of an alien appearance. NASA has suggested the head may […]