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A new sandstone lintel at Tell Abu Saifi names Horus as “Lord of the City of Mesen,” strengthening the case that the eastern Egyptian site may be the lost city described in ancient records.
A spacecraft travelling to another planet is not aimed at a stationary target. Earth and the destination are both moving around the Sun, while the spacecraft follows its own path…
Avi Loeb has proposed a Galileo Observatory at Carl Sagan’s former Ithaca home, linking public astronomy with a transparent search for UAP evidence.
No drill has come close to Earth’s centre. The deepest boreholes reach only a few kilometres, while the core begins roughly 2,900 kilometres below the surface. Our knowledge of the…
Black holes are invisible until something gives them away. A disk of hot gas can light up around one. A jet can cross a galaxy. And, in the most violent…
Why is Venus the hottest planet when Mercury is closer to the Sun? The answer is not distance alone but an atmosphere that traps heat so efficiently that the surface…
At Spain’s Atapuerca archaeological site, a handful of broken bones can change the shape of an entire chapter in human evolution. During the 2026 field season, researchers recovered at least…
The body was placed on its left side inside a disused canal, with the skull facing Huaca Pucllana's pyramid and the Pacific Ocean. Archaeologists believe the burial may have formed part of a deliberate offering when a ceremonial water feature was closed.
Animal bones from Ferriter's Cove were once treated as proof that domestic cattle reached Ireland before farming took hold. A new protein analysis identifies the remains as bear and wild boar instead, overturning a 40-year-old archaeological argument.
The rover did not find gemstones scattered across Mars. It detected tiny grains of corundum—the mineral that forms rubies and sapphires—inside pale, silica-rich rocks whose chemistry is difficult to explain.
Archaeologists working at Casas del Turuñuelo have uncovered an unusually decorated bronze chariot, along with imported objects that trace Tartessian connections across the ancient Mediterranean.
Before astronauts land on Mars, autonomous robots may need to scout sites, prepare power, move soil and test life-support systems. Here is how a robot-first outpost could work.
What is the difference between a meteor, meteoroid and meteorite? They are three stages of one possible journey: a meteoroid travels through space, a meteor is the bright trail made…
The first permanent foothold on the Moon will not begin with a crew stepping out of a lander and planting a flag beside a finished habitat. It will begin with…
An 8,300-year-old woman from prehistoric Japan has become one of the clearest genetic windows yet into the Jōmon world. Researchers have reconstructed a high-coverage genome from her remains, along with…
For more than a century, visitors to Brading Roman Villa on the Isle of Wight have come to see its mosaics: Medusa, Bacchus, geometric patterns and the evidence of a…
Mars can glow in ultraviolet light when energetic particles strike its upper atmosphere. The planet does not have Earth’s global magnetic field, so scientists have had to work out how…
Six days after a discarded Falcon 9 stage hit the Moon, NASA steered the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter toward the predicted impact site. Its images reveal an 18-metre crater, fresh material thrown from below the surface, and a remarkably accurate impact forecast.
Saturn’s rings look like a solid disk from Earth, but they are closer to a vast, flat swarm of orbiting particles. Most of the material is water ice mixed with…
Curiosity has photographed a broad field of polygonal fractures in a Martian valley, giving scientists another look at the water, sediment, and temperature changes that shaped the planet’s past.
Heavy slabs still cover a small room inside one of Karahantepe’s most unusual Neolithic buildings. Archaeologists plan to enter it from above during the 2026 excavation season, opening a space that may have remained closed for roughly 12,000 years.
New surveys have detected possible houses beyond Göbekli Tepe’s excavated monuments, while rooms already uncovered contain benches, grinding stones, storage spaces, and vessels. The famous sanctuary is beginning to look like the centre of a lived-in settlement.
A star does not switch off the instant its fuel runs low. The change begins in the core, where nuclear reactions have supported the star against gravity for most of…
Spacecraft near the Moon cannot simply open a map app and ask where they are. For decades, missions have relied on ground stations to measure their position, calculate a trajectory…