A Warm Layer Beneath Mars’ South Pole May Reveal How the Planet Lost Its Heat
Mars looks cold from orbit, but a new study suggests that the rock beneath its south polar region may still be carrying a surprising amount of heat. By analysing tiny…
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Ivan Petricevic
Ivan Petricevic is an investigative journalist and researcher with more than a decade of experience covering ancient history, UAP phenomena, space, and science. He writes about space, science, and history for Večernji list and has appeared as an expert on Discovery Channel and History Channel. He founded Curiosmos, where he reports from primary sources, archaeological research, and field investigations.
NASA’s X-59 Is Trying to Replace the Sonic Boom With a Quiet Thump
A supersonic aircraft does not need to be silent to change aviation. It needs to be quiet enough that people on the ground do not experience every overflight as a…
How Does LiDAR Reveal Lost Cities Beneath Forests?
How does LiDAR reveal lost cities beneath forests? It sends pulses of laser light from an aircraft or drone toward the ground and measures how long they take to return.…
Why Does Earth Have a Magnetic Field?
Why does Earth have a magnetic field? The answer begins more than 2,000 kilometres below our feet, in a layer of liquid iron and nickel that is constantly moving. Heat…
A Drilled Human Tooth from Serbia Turns Out to Be a 6,500-Year-Old Pendant
A drilled human canine from the Neolithic site of Jablanica in Serbia was mistaken for an animal tooth bead until a new analysis identified its human origin.
A 1,500-Year-Old Moche Burial Preserves Whistles, a Rattle, and a Child’s Story
A child about 18 months old was buried at Huacas de Moche with musical objects and a carefully made ceramic vessel. The find adds a personal detail to a major Moche settlement.
Painted Pottery from Arabia May Have Been the Bronze Age’s First Brand
Qurayyah Painted Ware carried repeatable designs across Bronze Age Arabia. New research suggests that its makers built recognition and demand around a distinctive style more than 3,000 years ago.
From Fireball to Meteorite: New Study Finds a Seven-Stage Journey
A meteorite fall does not end when a bright streak crosses the sky. New analysis of 75 documented falls follows the object through melting, fragmentation, braking, and the formation of a narrow strewn field.
A Hidden Part of a Solar Eruption Escaped Earth-Based Monitoring
A 17-spacecraft study found that a coronal mass ejection had a hotter, thinner component that Earth-based monitoring did not see directly.
A Deep Partial Lunar Eclipse Will Cover Most of the Moon This Week
Earth’s shadow will cover about 93 percent of the full Moon during the 27–28 August 2026 deep partial eclipse. It will be visible from the Americas, Europe, Africa, and western Asia.
Four Stars, One System, and a Mutual Eclipse Astronomers Have Never Seen Before
TIC 433545934 contains two pairs of stars locked in a wider orbit. The pairs eclipse internally, and observations also caught one binary crossing the other—a rare geometry that lets astronomers measure four stars together.
Curiosity Climbs Onto a Geological Boundary in Gale Crater
NASA’s Curiosity rover has climbed onto a feature in Gale Crater that may mark a pause—and a change—in the story written by Martian rocks. The mission team calls it a…
Bronze Age Greek Elites Wore Rings Made From Meteorite Iron, Study Finds
A chemical survey of 91 Bronze Age iron artefacts found that a small group of rings probably came from meteorites. Their tomb contexts suggest that “iron from the sky” carried status long before iron smelting became common.
An Ancient Iron Furnace in Uzbekistan Is Opening a Window on Central Asian Metalworking
An excavation in Uzbekistan is bringing archaeologists, materials scientists and environmental researchers together around a single ancient furnace. At Abu Muslim Qala, in the historic Khorezm region, a Purdue-led project…
How Do Telescopes Measure the Motion of Distant Galaxies?
How do telescopes measure the motion of distant galaxies? They read the fingerprints of atoms in the light those galaxies emit. A photograph can show a spiral, a cluster or…
An Etruscan Ritual Well at Kainua Holds Offerings and Human Remains
At the Etruscan city of Kainua in northern Italy, archaeologists have found a deep well containing intact bronze objects, a distinctive plate and human remains. The location and the objects…
Why Do We Always See the Same Side of the Moon?
The Moon is not motionless. It spins once on its axis in about 27.3 days and completes one orbit around Earth in about 27.3 days. Because those periods match, the…
How Do Archaeologists Date Pottery?
How do archaeologists date pottery? Usually, they do not look at a single shard and read a year from it. A ceramic fragment becomes useful when its shape, clay, decoration,…
NASA’s Three-Telescope View Reveals Where the Tarantula Nebula’s Energy Goes
The Tarantula Nebula is one of the busiest stellar nurseries in our galactic neighbourhood. Thousands of young stars are packed into a web of gas and dust in the Large…
A Roman Cave Sanctuary in Spain Holds 120 Inscriptions—and Five Name an Unknown Goddess
Deep inside a cave near Valencia, archaeologists have documented at least 120 Latin inscriptions from the Roman period. Five of them refer to a previously unknown goddess addressed as Domina—“the…
How Do Scientists Measure Distance in Space?
How do scientists measure distance in space? They use a chain of methods rather than one universal measuring tape. Radar can reach planets. Parallax works for nearby stars. Farther out,…
Boyajian’s Star May Have a Giant Companion Stirring Up Its Comets
Boyajian’s Star may have a large companion orbiting it, according to a new study of the system’s motion. The best estimate puts the object at about 9.4 times the mass…
What a Baseball Pitch Can Teach Us About UAP
Avi Loeb’s baseball-pitch analogy shows why motion, distance and the observing medium matter when scientists interpret UAP reports.
How Does Dendrochronology Date Ancient Buildings?
How does dendrochronology date ancient buildings? By reading the growth history recorded inside wood. In regions where trees respond to changing seasons, each year leaves a pattern of wide and…