First detection of sugars in meteorites may give clues to origin of life
Bill Steigerwald and Nancy Jones PhysOrg Bennu asteroid © NASA/Goddard/University of Arizona This is a mosaic image of asteroid Bennu, from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. The discovery of sugars in meteorites […]
Coffins of 3,000-year-old Mummies Opened in Egypt
By Allen Cone Archaeologists in Egypt on Saturday mummies discovered earlier this year in Luxor and estimated to be 3,000 years old. Photo courtesy Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry Oct. 19 (UPI) […]
Lunar Water Ice May Have Multiple Sources, Researchers Say
Lunar orbiters such as India’s Chandrayaan-1 spacecraft and NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) recently detected water icy on the floor of some of the south polar craters, but no one […]
50 years ago, an Antarctic fossil pointed to Gondwanaland’s existence
Fossils unearthed since indicate the southern continents were once linked in a giant landmass By Maria Temming October 11, 1969 — A search for further fossil evidence that Antarctica was […]
New Cretaceous Pterosaur Discovered in Australia
by Enrico de Lazaro Pterosaurs were highly successful reptiles — not dinosaurs, as they’re commonly mislabeled. These creatures thrived from about 220 million years ago to 65 million years ago, when […]
Want to Dig For Dinosaur Bones? Join the Pros at These Spots
By Jennifer Billock/Smithsonian.com By hour three of my dinosaur dig excursion near Bismarck, North Dakota, I was getting frustrated. The woman next to me had already found a perfectly formed […]
Tyrannosaurus rex Used a Stiff Skull to Eat its Prey
by Eric Stann, University of Missouri A Tyrannosaurus rex could bite hard enough to shatter the bones of its prey. But how it accomplished this feat without breaking its own […]
Extraterrestrial Mineral Never Before Seen on Earth Found Inside a Famous Meteorite
By Yasemin Saplakoglu The Wedderburn meteorite was first discovered in 1951. A never-before-seen extraterrestrial mineral was lurking inside a meteorite found nearly 70 years ago. According to a new study first reported […]
Scientists Discover New Evidence of the Asteroid That Killed Off the Dinosaurs
New rock samples in Mexico show how a city-sized asteroid wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago Drilling into the seafloor off Mexico, scientists have extracted a unique geologic record […]
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I faced about again, and rushed towards the approaching Martian, rushed right down the gravelly beach and headlong into the water. Others did the same. A boatload of people putting […]