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Aztec tower of skulls unearthed in Mexico
VIDEO Jul 3, 2017Archaeologists have located the site of a gruesome structure that was built from hundreds of human skulls.
Magnetic beam could dispose of old satellites
Jun 24, 2017A French scientist is working on a novel new way to keep Earth's orbit clear of defunct satellites.
PLATO mission to hunt for Earth-like worlds
Jun 22, 2017ESA is set to launch a new satellite that will seek out potentially habitable extrasolar planets.
'Star Chip' could reach Earth 2.0 in 20 years
Jun 21, 2017Stephen Hawking is hoping to send a space probe to a potentially habitable world around Alpha Centauri.
Intense volcanism gave rise to the dinosaurs
Jun 20, 2017A mass extinction event 200 million years ago made it possible for the dinosaurs to dominate the planet.
NASA discovers 10 near-Earth size exoplanets
Jun 19, 2017Scientists believe that these new worlds lie in the 'Goldilocks zone' of their respective solar systems.
What is the oldest living thing on Earth ?
Jun 12, 2017When it comes to extremely long-lived life forms, trees and plants beat animals hands down every time.
Earliest Homo sapiens unearthed in Morocco
Jun 8, 2017The discovery casts doubt on the idea that modern humans evolved in a single 'cradle of humanity'.
Lost Mesopotamian city discovered in Iraq
Jun 7, 2017Archaeologists have unearthed the long-lost ruins of a 4,000-year-old city known as Xarab-i Kilashin.
Mars was Earth-like for over 700,000 years
VIDEO Jun 3, 2017Data collected by the Curiosity rover has suggested that Mars could have supported life for a very long time.
Giant prehistoric sloth unearthed in LA metro
Jun 3, 2017A recent excavation in the heart of Los Angeles has yielded evidence of giant prehistoric beasts.
Bigelow: 'aliens are right under our noses'
May 30, 2017Aerospace entrepreneur and NASA partner Robert Bigelow believes that ET is already here on Earth.
NASA to probe $10,000 quadrillion asteroid
May 25, 2017The iron-rich asteroid 16 Psyche is so valuable that, if mined, it would collapse the global economy.
Superheated lava once reached Earth's surface
May 24, 2017Scientists have determined that 1,600-degree lava once surged to the surface in what is now Costa Rica.
Man finds Viking treasure with metal detector
May 21, 2017Derek McLennan earned almost $2.6 million after unearthing a horde of 10th-century Viking artefacts.
Exoplanet Proxima b has a 'stable climate'
May 16, 2017Scientists have been trying to work out what the weather might be like on this recently discovered world.
Hawking: 'we must leave Earth before 2117'
May 3, 2017Professor Stephen Hawking is making a documentary about humanity's need to colonize other worlds.
Did Vikings bury, cremate 'dead' houses ?
Apr 30, 2017There is evidence to suggest that Viking longhouses were 'buried' by being covered in mounds of Earth.
Distant 'ice ball' exoplanet discovered
VIDEO Apr 28, 2017Scientists have announced the discovery of a freezing Earth-mass world 13,000 light years away.
Fossilized dinosaur eggs unearthed in China
Apr 23, 2017Discovered near Foshan in the southeast of the country, the eggs date back over 70 million years.
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