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Extreme Solar Storm Hit Our Planet 14,300 Years Ago, Subfossil Tree-Rings Show

By News Staff October 9, 2023

In new research, scientists from the University of Leeds and elsewhere measured radiocarbon levels in ancient trees preserved within the eroded banks of the Drouzet River in the Southern French…

Tiny Fragments of Interstellar Meteor May Have Been Found in Pacific Ocean

By Natali Anderson July 10, 2023

Harvard University’s Professor Avi Loeb and colleagues have discovered at least 50 tiny spherical iron fragments near the fireball path of the first recognized interstellar meteor, IM1. Tiny meteoritic spherules…

Phosphorus, Rare Building Block for Life, Discovered at Enceladus

By News Staff June 15, 2023

Phosphorus has not previously been detected in oceans beyond those on Earth and this discovery provides a promising step forward in our understanding of ocean worlds. Saturn’s moon Enceladus with…

Is Frying Possible in Space?

By Natali Anderson June 12, 2023

French fries are a very popular food commodity across many cultural backgrounds on Earth and as such they may be appreciated by long-term space travelers. The process of frying in…

Vikings Abandoned Southwest Greenland Due in Part to Sea-Level Rise, New Research Suggests

By News Staff April 18, 2023

The first records of Greenland Vikings date to 985 CE. Archaeological evidence yields insight into how they lived, yet drivers of their disappearance in the 15th century remain enigmatic. Hypotheses…

ESA’s JUICE Spacecraft Launches to Study Jupiter’s Icy Moons

By News Staff April 17, 2023

ESA’s latest interplanetary mission, the JUpiter ICy Moons Explorer (JUICE), lifted off on an Ariane 5 rocket from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, at 14:14 CEST on April 14, 2023, to begin its eight-year…

Sabaean Inscription Points to Connections between King Solomon’s Israel and Kingdom of Sheba

By Enrico de Lazaro April 3, 2023

During the 2012 excavations in Jerusalem, Israel, a partially preserved inscription engraved on the shoulder of a pithos was found in a context dated to the 10th century BCE. Although…

Venus is Home to At Least 85,000 Volcanoes, Planetary Researchers Say

By News Staff March 30, 2023

There are many thousands of volcanoes on the surface of Venus. These volcanoes provide clues into the interior properties of the planet, properties that are otherwise largely inaccessible to scientists…

Scientists Find Vitamin B3 and Uracil in Samples from Asteroid Ryugu

By News Staff March 22, 2023

An international team of researchers has detected nicotinic acid (also known as vitamin B3 or niacin) and uracil, one of the four nucleobases in ribonucleic acid, in aqueous extracts from…

Relict Glacier Spotted near Martian Equator

By News Staff March 20, 2023

A so-called light-toned deposit (LTD) in Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus, about 160 km (99.4 miles) north-west of Oudemans crater near Mars’ equator, presents distinctive morphologic characteristics of a glacier, according to…