Archeology
Fossil birds pollinate plants
Scientists at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt (Germany) have described a supposedly oldest fossil bird compared to previously collected specimens of a pl…
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Archeology
Discovered a mass grave from the XV century in London
When excavating the Crossrail high-speed subway tunnel in London, construction workers discovered a burial place for plague victims in the fifteenth century - a pandemic…
Archeology
The largest ancient Cham tower was discovered
On August 22, after nearly a month of re-excavating the Cham Pa ruins in Da Nang, for the first time, the archaeological team discovered a central hole in the center of…
Archeology
Detecting turtle fossils mating
German scientists first discovered fossils of a vertebrate species - including humans - in a working position
Archeology
Photos of fossils in the Messel Pit area
Newly discovered fossils belong to the species Masillamys - a group of rodents with incisors like a carpenter's chisel.
Space science
Huge pit where NASA hunts extraterrestrial life
The US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has published details of the new Mars exploration plan with the goal of an ancient plains located within a giant hole…
Space science
Life may have existed 700 million years on Mars
Water is likely to be present for a very long time on Mars, enabling life to grow.
Space science
Discovered two locations with potential to nurture life on Mars
Scientists have done an analysis of a strange place on the surface of Mars and more interestingly, they say that this is the perfect place to search for life outside of…
Space science
Discover the mysterious ice lake on Pluto
NASA has just published a picture depicting a deep pit shaped like a large lake that once existed on the surface of Pluto.
Space science
NASA wants to turn the Moon into a robot lab
The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) is planning to turn a pit on the Moon into a science laboratory for robots.
Space science
Giant pit on the sun
The sun-observing vision of the glass found a giant hole in the central star's atmosphere, expressed in the form of a dark halo covering nearly a quarter of the sun, con…
Space science
Radar detects a meteorite pit under Russian lake
Thanks to radar technology, an asteroid crater has been exposed at the bottom of Lake Chebarkul, after experts attempted to find a meteorite collision point in Russia wi…
Space science
New discovery about ice on the moon
Scientists claim to have discovered new evidence that the largest hole in the southernmost moon may contain a large amount of ice. The main pit mentioned is Shackleton,…
Space science
Close-up of the 'super deep hole' moon
In November 2011, NASA's LRO spacecraft flew through the Aristarchus wormhole of the moon. The photographs showed the diameter of the pit up to 40km and its depth of mor…