Daring Mars mission to send rocks back to Earth in hunt for past life0
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- November 26, 2019
Europe poised to join US in complex plan to find evidence of fossil microbes on red planet
Europe poised to join US in complex plan to find evidence of fossil microbes on red planet
For decades, academic researchers have dismissed the study of UFOs as pseudoscience. But as the evidence becomes harder and harder to ignore, some organizations are finally taking steps to make the field legitimate.
As Enrico Fermi famously once said, “Where is everybody”?” These words were uttered in the summer of 1950 when the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) was heating up. They also captured the frustrations and unresolved questions surrounding the existence of extraterrestrial life.
The last time we were in this position in the Milky Way, dinosaurs were just beginning to roam the Earth.
Nine human species walked the Earth 300,000 years ago. Now there is just one. The Neanderthals, Homo neanderthalensis, were stocky hunters adapted to Europe’s cold steppes. The related Denisovans inhabited Asia, while the more primitive Homo erectus lived in Indonesia, and Homo rhodesiensis in central Africa.
Astronomers note record-breaking observation of highest energy ever measured from gamma ray bursts
A shocking discovery made a decade and a half ago is changing our understanding of human evolution
In a first, an international team has found sugars essential to life in meteorites.
NASA is about to put a rover to the test in Antarctica, and it’s unlike any robot the agency has ever shot into space.
Meteorologists give names to large storms with wide impacts — like tropical cyclones and, in some cases, massive winter storms — to help make communication easier. If you have several active tropical storms, for instance, you want to be sure everyone knows which one you’re discussing.