Space science
Chinese spacecraft brings back to Earth priceless rock
Among the 108 samples brought back to Earth by the Chang'e 6 spacecraft, there was one piece of rock that was completely different.
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Biology
Discover life under a 15km deep crack
Microorganisms thrive in one of the harshest environments of the Earth, opening the hope of finding life on another planet.
Videos
Scientists reproduce the lava explosion
The University of Buffalo expert team made lava from basalt and exposed it to study the reaction.
Discover science
The mystery of the valley of corpses, going in is painful dry death
The scenery is beautiful but the place hides a dangerous danger.
Discover science
Life on Earth is almost completely erased because volcanoes destroy the ozone layer
It happened about 250 million years ago, even before the eruption of the dinosaurs and volcanoes that destroyed the Earth's ozone layer, almost completely eradicated lif…
Discover science
The deeper you go into the Earth's core, the higher the temperature: Why is that?
The surface of the Earth is covered with a stone shell, several tens of kilometers thick. The deeper you go into the ground, the higher the temperature.
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The creation of the hexagonal stone pillar on
The road of the Northern Ireland giant is a special natural wonder with tens of thousands of hexagonal basalt blocks that rise straight up into the sky along the coast.
1001 mystery
Mysterious structure under the Israeli sea
Archaeologists who are headache find ways to explain the origin and life of a massive stone structure discovered under the Sea of Galilee in Israel.
1001 mystery
The city's mystery is made of giant stone
If cities like Atlantis and El Dorado are attracted only by the mysterious disappearance, Nan Madol city off the east coast of Pohnpei state, Micronesia (Western Pacific…
Conquer Mars
Mars used to be 'green planet' like Earth
New evidence suggests that at some stage, the current basalt shell of Mars formed by lava spreads across the planet.
Archeology
The stone helps to decode the ancient Egyptian language
The Rosetta stone is a 114cm high, 72cm wide basalt, representing the two languages of Egypt and ancient Greece.
Space science
Chinese self-propelled robots find strange stones on the Moon
China's Jade Rabbit self-discovery device discovered a new basalt while searching for minerals on the Moon's surface.
Space science
What is the small green spot on Mars's surface?
Recently a satellite image of the Red Planet's terrain has accidentally revealed small blue spots on the surface. So what are they and where do they come from?
Space science
The Earth-like continent may have existed on Mars
Scientists believe that Mars once looked like Earth in ancient times, when the Curiosity probe detected rock on the red planet very similar to the ancient continental cr…
Space science
Building buildings on Mars
Three architects Dmitry Zhuikov, Arina Ageeva and Krassimir Krastev proposed by German architectural firm ZA, buildings must be built underground and made by robots.