Hannah Price

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Hannah covers news and science for Contoh – the stories behind the headlines, and why they matter.

The Meteor That Hit Oklahoma Was About 100 Million Years Younger Than Scientists Thought

New dating of tiny zircon crystals puts the buried Ames impact crater at about 370 million years old — close in time to one of Earth’s big mass extinctions.

NASA Picks a Mission to Find Out Whether a Hole on the Moon Leads to a Giant Cave

A new NASA-selected project will use radar, seismic sensors and a gravity meter to see whether the Marius Hills Pit opens into an underground lava tube — a possible shelter for future astronauts.

NASA’s Roman Space Telescope Passes a Key Steadiness Test and Takes Its First Coronagraph Look

A month after launch, NASA’s Roman Space Telescope proved it can hold extraordinarily still, and its starlight-blocking Coronagraph Instrument saw stars for the first time.

This “Armor” Fabric More Than Tripled Strawberry Yields

A knitted textile first developed for military uniforms kept insects off strawberry plants – and up to 3.56 times more fruit grew underneath it.

Meet the Tilcayo: The First New Wild Cat Species Named in Over a Century

DNA analysis has revealed a tiny, previously unrecognized wild cat in Bolivia’s cloud forests. Scientists named it Leopardus tilcayo.

Astronomers Find the Fastest Star Yet Circling Our Galaxy’s Black Hole

A faint star called S301 whips around Sagittarius A* every 8.7 years at about 8% of the speed of light. Astronomers hope it will finally reveal how fast the black hole spins.
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