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NASA makes major announcement about Mars sample-return mission
4-16-2024 |
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Major change is afoot regarding NASA's plans to return samples of Martian soil and rock to the Earth.
What happened to Saudi Arabia's $1.5tn 105-mile-long megacity ?
VIDEO 4-11-2024 | 5
It would have been one of the most revolutionary and ambitious constructions on Earth... so where is it ?
New study offers update on odds of 'killer' asteroid Apophis striking Earth
3-10-2024 | 6
When it was first discovered 20 years ago, it was thought that Apophis had a relatively high chance of colliding with us.
Bennu may have come from an ancient ocean world, analysis suggests
2-11-2024 | 2
Scientists have started analyzing the material samples returned to Earth by the OSIRIS-REx asteroid mission.
New method can detect 99% of secretive underground nuclear tests
2-9-2024 | 2
Scientists have found a way to reliably tell the difference between a natural earthquake and an underground nuclear explosion.
'Super Earth' discovered within distant star's habitable zone
2-5-2024 | 1
Astronomers have identified a potentially habitable extrasolar planet situated around 137 light-years away.
How much life has existed, or will ever exist, on the Earth ?
1-16-2024 | 1
Assistant Professor Peter Crockford takes a look at how much life has inhabited this planet since the first cell appeared.
Real-life 10ft prehistoric 'King Kong' disappeared 215,000 years ago
VIDEO 1-11-2024 | 10
Known as Gigantopithecus blacki, this enormous primate was the largest of its kind ever to walk the Earth.
Prehistoric carnivorous 'terror beast' worm fossils unearthed in Greenland
1-5-2024 | 2
Over 500 million years ago, these huge predatory worms prowled the Cambrian seas.
Could a nuclear missile be used to save the Earth from a killer asteroid?
12-23-2023 | 3
Scientists have developed a new modeling tool to help simulate the effects of a nuclear device on a large asteroid.
8,000-year-old fortress discovered in Siberia is thought to be world's oldest
12-9-2023 | 7
Archaeologists have unearthed the remains of an ancient fortress built by hunter-gatherers in Siberia's Lower Ob' region.
Gargantuan millipede the length of a car reconstructed for Netflix show
VIDEO 12-3-2023 | 3
Millions of years ago, the Earth was home to some truly titanic insects including one particularly enormous millipede.
Extremely high-energy 'sun goddess' particle falls to Earth from space
11-24-2023 | 15
The particle is over one million times more energetic than anything generated by the Large Hadron Collider.
Gunung Padang: 'world's oldest pyramid' dates back up to 27,000 years
11-4-2023 | 32
This enigmatic archaeological site in Indonesia has the potential to be the oldest monolithic structure on Earth.
Evidence of proto-planet 'Theia' found deep inside Earth's mantle
11-2-2023 | 9
The findings could not only solve the mystery of the Moon's formation, but also the mystery of two large subsurface 'blobs'.
Fossil remains of world's largest marsupial unearthed in Australia
10-25-2023 | 4
A relative of today's wombats, the Diprotodon was absolutely massive - standing 1.7 meters tall and weighing 3 tons.
Over 30 years ago, Carl Sagan successfully detected life on Earth
10-21-2023 | 2
Sagan and his colleagues used instruments aboard the Galileo spacecraft to conduct a very important control experiment.
'Marsquake' confirmed to be strongest tremor ever detected beyond the Earth
10-17-2023 | 0
A 'monster' quake picked up on Mars suggests that the Red Planet is far from seismically inactive.
'Tomb of Cerberus' unearthed by archaeologists in Italy
10-11-2023 | 13
The remarkable sealed tomb, which is believed to date back 2,000 years, was found in Giugliano.
Is there really a 1 in 6 chance of human extinction this century?
10-7-2023 | 3
Toby Ord's 2020 book painted a grim picture of humanity's chances this century, but just how accurate is his prediction ?
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