These Retired Lab Chimps Are Already Loving Their New Home and other top stories.

• These Retired Lab Chimps Are Already Loving Their New Home

  

  Nine former lab chimpanzees are settling into their new home at a Georgia sanctuary ― with more than 200 others slated to join them. Project Chimps, a 236-acre facility near Blue Ridge, Georgia, welcomed Buttercup, Charisse, Emma, Genesis, Gertrude, Gracie, Jennifer, Latricia and Samira on Thursday. The all-female crew, ranging from 10 to 12 years of age, came from the University of Louisiana’s New Iberia Research Center. They resided there with 211 others, though the university states that th..

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• Curiosity rover sends back striking images of Mars rock formations

  

  NASA has released new color images taken by the Curiosity Mars rover, which it says will help increase understanding of the red planet's landscape. The pictures, taken on Thursday, were taken in the "Murray Buttes" region of lower Mount Sharp, an 18,000ft mountain, where the Rover has been based since 2014. Curiosity is looking into how and when habitable conditions on Mars that were once present evolved into drier conditions less favourable for life on the planet. Curiosity Project scientist A..

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• How do you scoop asteroid dirt? Lockheed Martin figured it out

  

  One of the most amazing pieces of technology to emerge from Lockheed Martin's laboratories is a simple circular canister designed to hold nothing more than dirt, gravel and maybe some dust. It looks like a 1960s-era slide carousel on a projector, and the concept behind it was first tested in an engineer's driveway with his middle school-aged son.The dirt it's designed for isn't on Earth, however. It's whizzing about in deep space on an asteroid that scientists have been observing for years. On ..

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• SpaceX appeals for help in probe of rocket blast

  

  SpaceX appealed for help from the public and US government agencies on Friday in the investigation of what made a Falcon 9 rocket explode last week during a launch test. No one was hurt in the September 1 blast, which happened as the rocket was being fueled ahead of a standard, pre-launch test known as a static-fire at Cape Canaveral, Florida. "Still working on the Falcon fireball investigation," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk wrote on Twitter. "Turning out to be the most difficult and complex fai..

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