Space science
430 km long field filled with meteorites
Asteroid more than 200 tons crashed to Earth with a special flight path, creating a series of meteorite fragments scattered in a large area.
Earth
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Oceanography
Complete mapping of nearly a quarter of the ocean floor on Earth
The Seabed 2030 project, which collects data from governments, companies and research institutes, aims to map 100% of the ocean floor by 2030.
Space science
83.6kg metal sphere makes the US 'wake up': Beep beep scares White House officials
Only nearly 84kg, but this sphere is heavy enough to make the US change many strategies. The race to conquer the universe has officially started since then...
Space science
Chang'e 4 spacecraft revealed about the dark side of the Moon: Turns out Stephen Hawking was right?
For many years, people have been trying to discover and find out about the mysteries of the Moon. Those efforts paid off when a series of new findings were published...
Photo library
Top 7 rarest amazing natural phenomena in the world, only wish to see once in a lifetime
The earth is a wonderful place and the rarest natural phenomena are breathtakingly beautiful that will leave you in awe of the abilities of nature.
Space science
The Big Bang of Life - the bold theory of life on Earth?
A journalist introduces the theory of 'Life's Big Bang'. However, there are still many holes in this theory…
Archeology
Analyzing cosmic matter, finding Earth's first human?
Two distinctive isotopes in quartz created by high-energy cosmic ray reactions near the Earth's surface have revealed the age of skeletons that may be older than the fam…
Space science
The galaxy containing the Earth is punctured: The culprit causes shivers!
A new study has revealed mysterious, non-matter voids in the galaxy containing the Earth's Milky Way, caused by some of the deadliest events in the universe.
Space science
Spherical, prismatic 'foreign object' exposed in meteorite that fell to Russia
German scientists have found bizarre carbon microcrystals in the famous Chelyabinsk meteorite that crashed into Russia in 2013.
History
Evidence of advanced civilizations living on Earth more than 100,000 years ago?
History is always interesting to curious people, for all that we have known, are knowing and will know are only incomplete pieces of the whole picture of the past of hum…
Science story
Space weather causes satellites to fall quickly to Earth
Experts fear the new solar cycle will cause satellites flying in low orbit around the Earth to run out of fuel and fall through the atmosphere faster.
Conquer Mars
Only 6 countries in the world are engaged in this work: China is aiming to 'usurp the throne'!
The SCMP newspaper quoted a senior Chinese space official as confirming that China plans to bring samples from the Martian surface by 2031.
Space science
Top 7 secrets about the Solar System still unanswered
The universe is a vast and immutable outer space, containing mysteries that humans have never approached. In the Solar System, a series of open questions are still causi…
Space science
For the first time in history, a commercial satellite successfully surveyed the entire sky of the Earth
The success of China's equipment shows the potential for big data mining in private companies.
Space science
Shock proof: The Earth is in danger of being ripped apart by an unsuspecting enemy
A world located 86 light-years away has provided a window of time for scientists to predict Earth's future.