Archeology
The animal with 50 living parts 550 million years ago could decipher the secret of life
A 550 million-year-old fossil worm found on the banks of the Yangtze River, west of Hubei province, China, may be the first creature on Earth to move.
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Archeology
A worker accidentally unearths medieval treasures
Go to help you build a house, a worker stumbles upon a treasure with 14,000 coins dating back to the Middle Ages.
Archeology
Fossil discovered the largest flying animal ever lived on Earth
Fossils of a newly discovered dinosaur with a wider wingspan than a bus in London are one of the largest flying animals ever on Earth.
Space science
Scores on things alien presence right on Earth
New research shows that to touch alien things, you may not need to go too far. They are right around you, and sometimes looking at you from the mirror.
Space science
The space elevator will connect Earth with the Moon
This Spaceline elevator can be fabricated from existing materials. Instead of launching rockets out of orbit, astronauts will only need Spaceline to reach the end of the…
Space science
Discovering super Earth could be very close to us
Another solar system called Gilese 1061 has up to three super-Earths, of which one super-Earth could be an almost perfect enlarged copy of our planet.
Space science
The first robot to fly into Russian space back to Earth
On the morning of September 7, the Russian Soyuz MS-14 spacecraft carrying humanoid robot Skybot F-850 landed in the south central steppe and other equipment.
Space science
NASA panicked because the giant rock was about to graze the Earth
In nearly 10 days, the asteroid 2019 QZ1 will prepare to fly within 3 million miles (nearly 5 million km) from Earth.
Space science
Shock with the number of meteors that could hit Earth in the next 100 years
The European Space Agency (ESA) recently assessed the number of meteorites that are likely to hit Earth in the next 100 years.
Videos
Close up of meteorite burning like a fireball falling in Australia
Recently, a relatively large meteorite has landed in southern Australia, creating a giant trail of light in the dark night.
New technology
Students invent 'tags' to search for earthquake victims
A group of students in Indonesia has successfully built a device that uses high-frequency ultrasound to help search for earthquake victims.
Discover science
Earth 'shudder', signaling the birth of a supercontinent?
The continents of the earth have many times carved in - out. And yet another import to create the hypothetical supercontinent Pangea Proxima seems to be starting.
Discover science
Most creatures on Earth disappeared 2 billion years ago
Experts analyze rock samples in Hudson Bay and find that the number of organisms on Earth has dropped sharply due to the change in oxygen.
Discover science
What would happen if the Earth's sea and land swapped? Hell is full of centipedes waiting for you
Named as Earth but with little land, people will come to a time when there is no place to live. So what if the land and water were swapped?
Space science
NASA is about to attack asteroids that harm the Earth
Planet researchers, spacecraft engineers from NASA (USA) and ESA (Europe) and around the world meet in Rome next week to discuss deflecting a potentially dangerous aster…