Piecing together the puzzle of the world's earliest datable rune stone
Piecing together fragments of the world's earliest known rune stone shows they fit together like a jigsaw puzzle and may have ...
Astronomers have spied an asteroid that may be heading for Earth: What we know so far
On 27 December last year, astronomers using the ATLAS survey telescope in Chile discovered a small asteroid moving away from ...
New analysis of asteroid dust reveals evidence of salty water in the early solar system
In October 2020, a van-sized robotic spacecraft briefly touched down on the surface of Bennu, a 525-meter-wide asteroid 320 million kilometers from Earth.
A 'city-killer' asteroid might hit Earth—how worried should we be?
A colossal explosion in the sky, unleashing energy hundreds of times greater than the Hiroshima bomb. A blinding flash nearly ...
Sound is a primary issue in the lives of skateboarders, study shows
Sound plays a significant and often poignant part of skateboarders' relationship with their sport, a new study published in ...
Are we all aliens? NASA's returned asteroid samples hold the ingredients of life from a watery world
Asteroid samples fetched by NASA hold not only the pristine building blocks for life but also the salty remains of an ancient ...
Healthy gut bacteria that feed on sugar analyzed for the first time
A microbe that is associated with good health and found in the lower part of the gut has been comprehensively analyzed and ...
Rediscovered fresco reveals Islamic tents in medieval Christian churches
A 13th-century fresco rediscovered in Ferrara, Italy, provides unique evidence of medieval churches using Islamic tents to ...
First major chunk breaks off world's biggest iceberg
An enormous chunk has broken off the world's largest iceberg, in a possible first sign the behemoth from Antarctica could be ...
Scientists test space device to detect elusive dark matter
Scientists are working on an ambitious dark matter experiment in space in the hope it can unravel one of the universe's ...
Rethinking Carnot: Scientists overcome traditional power-efficiency trade-off
Challenging centuries-old assumptions about thermodynamics, a new study published in Physical Review Letters has shown that ...
One of the largest searches for alien life started 30 years ago—its legacy lives on today
In February 1995, a small research organization known as the SETI Institute launched what was then the most comprehensive ...