Asteroid Fragment Reveals a Strange Mineral Never Seen on Earth : ScienceAlert
The asteroid Ryugu is an echo from the deep, distant past. Two tiny grains of the rock, delivered…
JWST May Have Found The First Direct Evidence of a Primordial Black Hole : ScienceAlert
A tiny blob of red light spotted at the beginning of the Universe could represent the first direct…
NASA’s Insight Lander Reveals a Surprise at The Very Core of Mars : ScienceAlert
Scientists peering into the very heart of hearts of the planet Mars have found a deeply unexpected structure.…
Ancient Pit of Horrors May Have Been Spoils of a Victory Celebration : ScienceAlert
Severed arms and brutalized skeletal remains recovered from pits at two 6,000-year-old archaeological sites in northeastern France suggest…
Earth’s Rotation Is Slowing, And It Might Explain Why We Have Oxygen : ScienceAlert
Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth’s rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its…
Chemists Have Replicated a Critical Moment in The Creation of Life : ScienceAlert
The spontaneous coalescence of the molecules that led to life on primordial Earth, some 4 billion years ago,…
Watermelon-Shaped Atom Seen Breaking Apart in a Most Unusual Way : ScienceAlert
An international team of researchers has discovered a new configuration of nuclear particles that decays by kicking out…
Dark Matter Could Turn Some Planets Into Tiny Black Holes : ScienceAlert
Giant worlds beyond the Solar System could be the probe we need to figure out how dark matter…
Blazing Rainbow in Space Hints at Earth’s Origins : ScienceAlert
The glorious guts of a dying star are the means by which astronomers are hoping to discover the…
It’s Chunky, With a History of Violence : ScienceAlert
The interior of Mars is as chunky as a delicious macadamia cookie. A new analysis of the acoustic…
World’s Most Powerful Solar Telescope Captures Its First Monster Flare in Astonishing Detail : ScienceAlert
The powerful NSF Inouye Solar Telescope has just delivered absolutely mind-blowing observations of its first X-class solar flare.…
Mysterious Skull Fused to Cave Wall Could Belong to a Rare Human Species : ScienceAlert
A skull that was found embedded in a cave wall in Greece more than 60 years ago may…