Archeology
Discovered the tomb of the treasurer of the Egyptian pharaoh
Egypt's Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities on October 30 announced the discovery of the tomb of Ptah-M-Wea, who held many important positions in the reign of pharaoh Ra…
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Archeology
'Laser eye' detects the thousand-year-old White City, ordinary people don't see
The White City or City of the Monkey God, which can be up to 1,000 years old, ghostly appeared in the middle of the Honduran jungle thanks to a laser survey of satellite…
Archeology
A series of surprises about 'monster fish' existed in Vietnam 415 million years ago
The monster with the bizarre triangular head is a creature that is in the process of evolving from jawless vertebrates to jawed vertebrates.
Archeology
New fossil revealed, giant shark eats ancient whales
The flipper fossil reveals a large shark that ate the carcasses of baleen whales floating in the sea 15 million years ago.
Archeology
Controversial 'ghost race': Leaving 'treasure' but... evaporated?
Scientists are trying to solve the puzzle of 1,930 pieces of limestone shaped like meticulously crafted spearheads.
Space science
The Spitzer Space Telescope captures the image of a nebula that looks like the monster Godzilla
NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope sent back to Earth a stunning image of a dust cloud thousands of light-years away.
Space science
Bad news about 'alien signal' from 4.2 light years from Earth
Scientists have just given the final answer to the signal that stirred astronomers in 2019 from the Proxima Centauri star system, which has a planet thought to be habita…
Space science
NASA plans to have the first unmanned flight to the Moon in 2022
NASA said it has completed the process of putting Orion on the SLS space launch system and is expected to have the first unmanned flight to the moon in 2022.
Space science
Unique idea wins NASA space food contest
3D printed steaks, insect proteins, mushrooms are some of the unique ideas among the winners of NASA's space food competition.
Space science
Solar storm with speed of 4 million km/h makes landfall on Earth
NASA satellite captures the moment when a solar storm erupts violently, making the aurora on Earth more brilliant in time for Halloween.
Space science
Image of the Earth seen from the Moon's south pole
NASA hopes astronauts will be able to see Earth first-hand from the Moon's poles by the end of the 2020s.
Space science
Discovered a planet that lost its entire atmosphere after a huge meteorite impact
Astronomers have discovered for the first time a planet that lost its entire atmosphere after an extremely large meteorite impact.
Space science
Shiver what can swallow the Earth right in the Solar System
Jupiter's red monster can be more than 480 km deep and more than enough to swallow the Earth.
Space science
Chinese spacecraft rewrites the geological history of the Moon
Rock samples collected by the Chang'e 5 spacecraft reveal volcanic activity on the Moon lasting nearly a billion years longer than previously thought.