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The plateau does not look special at first. Dry ground. Pale rock. Wind moving through long grass. It is the kind of place people pass without slowing down. Yet beneath this quiet surface, something old has been waiting. In central Bolivia, inside Torotoro National Park, stone slabs carry the marks of movement from a vanished…

The rolled-up piece of lead contains inscriptions that are barely visible to the naked eye. (Image credit: Archeology in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (AIM-V)) The discovery came from a place no one expected to yield anything remarkable. During routine excavation work for an extension to Rostock’s town hall, archaeologists lifted an unassuming, tightly rolled strip of lead…

Breakthroughs in scientific research are not always made in experienced laboratories and research teams. Occasionally, they are made by new eyes that are eager to challenge how data is analysed. This is exactly what happened when Matteo Paz, a teenager from the United States, used AI to re-analyse data from NASA’s now-retired research project. Given…

Some questions arrive quietly. When is the next full Moon 2026 is one of them. It usually turns up while scanning a calendar or noticing the moon hanging a little brighter than usual. The full moon does not announce itself loudly. It simply shows up, round and pale, pulling attention for a few nights before…

Meteor showers promise a diverse and exciting year for sky gazing in 2026, ranging from brief and bright outbursts at rapid rates to prolonged and faint displays spread throughout the year. These phenomena are produced when Earth intersects with trails of debris trailed by comets and asteroids, which then result in the fragmentation and ignited…

There is a moment each year when the Arctic stops reflecting light and starts holding it. It does not announce itself. Satellites notice first. Then, researchers begin to compare notes. By late summer, the ice that once covered much of the Arctic Ocean has thinned and retreated again, but this time the loss feels sharper….

Winter often feels like a long stretch of weak light and cold air. The idea that Earth is actually closest to the Sun during this time can sound wrong, almost misleading. January mornings do not feel warmer because of a smaller gap in space. Yet every year, quietly and without drama, Earth reaches that closer…

Credit – NASA39037_Mars-viking-orbiter-olympus-mons-volcano On some Mars images, Olympus Mons does not look dramatic at first glance. It sits there quietly, a wide pale rise against rust coloured plains. No sharp peak. No obvious violence. Only when scale is added does it begin to feel strange. This single volcano rises higher than anything on Earth and…

It could be the largest lunar impact event in 5,000 years.If it hits in December 2032, asteroid 2024 YR4 — believed to be 60 metres in diameter — may release the energy equivalent of six million tonnes of TNT, 400 times the power of the bomb over Hiroshima, and leave the Moon with a new…

1 Ship to breach Earth’s CRUST Next year, a 600-foot Chinese research vessel will set sail to find the perfect site from where it will start drilling down to the Mohorovicic Discontinuity (Moho), the boundary between Earth’s crust and mantle. Scientists have been trying to breach Moho since 1961 to study tectonic activity. Moho lies…