According to a recent survey of exoplanets around red dwarf stars, there’s a rise in the population of water worlds. Apparently, we may have underestimated how much wetter the Milky Way galaxy is. What’s more curious is that the newly ...
The Nullarbor Plain in southern Australia, once home to a massive ancient ocean, hides many mysteries. It stretches for over a thousand kilometers and is now a scrubby desert on limestone bedrock. Recent discovery tries to shed light upon the ...
Chinese scientists have found a brand-new mineral called Changesite-(Y) in lunar samples returned by China’s Chang’e-5 lunar spacecraft in December 2020. The mineral resembles a diamond a lot due to its crystal clear appearance. China is, at present, the third ...
To make matter even colder than the darkest parts of space, a team of researchers has managed to chill it to within a billionth of a degree of absolute zero. The experiment, run at the University of Kyoto in Japan, ...
According to recent research, Zimbabwe was the home of one of the oldest dinosaur species ever found on Earth and the oldest confirmed dinosaur species ever found in Africa. Mbiresaurs raathi, a 230 million-year-old dinosaur whose neighbors lived in Brazil, ...
A new ‘Stonehenge’ arises, and it’s actually one of Europe’s largest Neolithic standing stones. The stone was discovered by archaeologists in southwest Spain, close to Huelva, at a future avocado farm. Archaeologists have begun their mission immediately, trying to solve ...
Recent archaeological discovery in Europe left people quite shocked. In a garden in the Portuguese city of Pombal, archaeologists are unearthing the remains of what may be the giant dinosaur ever discovered in Europe. What could’ve been the chance to ...
The University of Michigan has just announced that its alleged Galileo manuscript is actually a forgery from the 20th century. According to the library statement, the document was a real treasure in the university’s collection. However, an internal inquiry by ...
Astronomers have identified a strange planet not present in our solar system orbiting other stars. It is neither too large nor too tiny but falls between the Earth’s and Neptune’s radii. Dense “super-Earths,” more prominent than Earth, are found near ...
Curtin University is researching a chunk of a Martian meteorite found on Earth in the Moroccan Sahara Desert in 2011 and initially reported in 2013. According to experts from Australia’s Curtin University, scientists are one step closer to knowing when ...