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Martian Springtime Dust Storms Churn Up Surprisingly Earth-Like Cloud Patterns: Study

By News Staff November 16, 2022

Using images obtained by two orbiting spacecraft, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and ESA’s Mars Express, planetary researchers analyzed textured dust storms that develop at the northern polar cap boundary on…

Scientists Find Earliest Evidence of Hominins Cooking with Fire

By Enrico de Lazaro November 15, 2022

Archaeologists have found the 780,000-year-old remains of a cooked carp-like fish at the wetland Acheulean site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov in Israel. Ancient inhabitants of the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site…

Stars and Building Blocks of Their Planets ‘Grow Up’ Together, New Study Suggests

By News Staff November 15, 2022

The timing and locations of formation of planetesimals — the building blocks of planets — are crucial to the understanding of planet formation. If we are to form larger planets…

2,500-Year-Old Etruscan Temple Discovered in Italy

By Enrico de Lazaro November 14, 2022

Archaeologists have discovered the ruins of a monumental temple in Vulci, an ancient Etruscan city in Italy. The corner of the newly-discovered temple (left) under excavation and the larger Tempio…

Archaeologists Find 3,700-Year-Old Ivory Comb Inscribed with Canaanite’s Wish to Eradicate Lice

By Enrico de Lazaro November 9, 2022

The small inscribed ivory comb was found at Tel Lachish, a key Canaanite city-state in the 2nd millennium BCE, the second most important city in the Judean Kingdom after Jerusalem…

Researchers Find Extraterrestrial Noble Gases in Asteroid Ryugu Sample

By Sergio Prostak November 3, 2022

The sample of material delivered to our planet from the near-Earth asteroid Ryugu contained a mixture of extraterrestrial (helium and neon) and terrestrial atmospheric gases, according to new research led…

Early Byzantine Quarter Unearthed in Ancient City of Ephesus

By Enrico de Lazaro November 1, 2022

Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have uncovered the 1,400-year-old ruins of the business and gastronomy district in Ephesus, an ancient city in modern-day Turkey. The excavation area (center)…

Mars Express Sees Craters and Fractures in Terra Sirenum

By News Staff October 31, 2022

This new image from the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) aboard ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows a diverse region southeast of the Pickering crater in Terra Sirenum, a complex cratered…

Neolithic European Farmers Used Milk as Early as 7,400 Years Ago

By News Staff October 17, 2022

Archaeologists have detected traces of dairy fats on the walls of pottery vessels from the settlements of the Linearbandkeramik culture in Central Europe. Part of a decorative ceramic pot of…

Study: Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Co-Existed in France and Spain for at least 1,400 Years

By News Staff October 13, 2022

A new modeling study by Leiden University and University of Cambridge scientists predicts the appearance of Homo sapiens and the Protoaurignacian culture in France and northern Spain at 42,269 to…

AMS Detector Reveals Surprising Surplus of Cosmic Rays Made of Deuterons

Study: Asteroid Psyche Originated beyond Solar System’s Snow Line and Later Migrated to Main Belt

ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter Spots Chloride-Bearing Deposits on Mars

Mid-Crust of Mars May Contain ‘Oceans of Liquid Water’

‘Nanoparticle Warming’ Have Potential to Warm Mars, Planetary Scientists Say

Mars Once Hosted Lake Larger than Any on Earth: Lake Eridania

Flakes of Natural Graphene Found in Lunar Soil Samples

Curiosity Finds Pure Sulfur on Mars

Study: Biological Amino Acids Could Survive in Near-Surface Ices of Europa and Enceladus

Astronomers Propose New Definition of Planet

AMS Detector Reveals Surprising Surplus of Cosmic Rays Made of Deuterons

Study: Asteroid Psyche Originated beyond Solar System’s Snow Line and Later Migrated to Main Belt

Scientists Find Earliest Evidence of Hominins Cooking with Fire

Stars and Building Blocks of Their Planets ‘Grow Up’ Together, New Study Suggests

2,500-Year-Old Etruscan Temple Discovered in Italy

Archaeologists Find 3,700-Year-Old Ivory Comb Inscribed with Canaanite’s Wish to Eradicate Lice

Researchers Find Extraterrestrial Noble Gases in Asteroid Ryugu Sample

Early Byzantine Quarter Unearthed in Ancient City of Ephesus

Mars Express Sees Craters and Fractures in Terra Sirenum

Neolithic European Farmers Used Milk as Early as 7,400 Years Ago

Study: Neanderthals and Homo sapiens Co-Existed in France and Spain for at least 1,400 Years

AMS Detector Reveals Surprising Surplus of Cosmic Rays Made of Deuterons

Study: Asteroid Psyche Originated beyond Solar System’s Snow Line and Later Migrated to Main Belt