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The oldest fossil evidence for early life has been discovered in micrometre-sized pyrite crystals from the Strelley Pool Formation in Western Australia,...

Our solar system, where planets have a range of sizes and move in near-circular paths, may be rather unusual, according to a German-British team led by...

A team of University of Pennsylvania physicists has shown how to disrupt the ‘coffee ring effect’ — the ring-shaped stain of particles left...

Facebook and Yahoo have joined forces to test a long-standing theory in sociology that everyone on Earth is connected together in a giant social network. Yahoo’s...

Songo Mnara, once a thriving city off the coast of Tanzania in East Africa, has been empty and abandoned for many more centuries than it flourished. A...

Heads of Roscosmos and the European Space Agency discussed future manned mission to Mars at Air Show MAKS-2011, was announced on Wednesday, August 17,2011. ‘Flight...

Scientists in a lab with Daya Bay Nuclear Power Station in southern Guangdong Province have found neutrino through two detecting instruments, which is...

In a new study co-authored by University of Florida scientists, researchers recovered and analyzed the oldest fossil evidence of fingernails in modern...

An international team of researchers takes an important step toward giving physicists the ability to effectively make movies of individual electrons. If...

‘Fobos-Grunt spacecraft has been compiled and sent to the vibration test. A couple of weeks it will be shaken to simulate extreme space conditions’,...

The archeological excavations in Salme, soon to be completed, have yielded evidence that the ship that had been buried with 35 warriors and nobles had...

A giant cosmic necklace glows brightly in this NASA Hubble Space Telescope image. The object, aptly named the Necklace Nebula, is a recently discovered...

A team of astronomers, using the Spitzer Space Telescope, has reported the first extragalactic detection of the C70 fullerene molecule, and the possible...

SETI Institute announced that it had raised $200,000 from a crowd-sourced fundraising effort that launched this spring. The money, which came from just...

An international team of astronomers has made the first undisputed detection of oxygen molecules in space. Using data from the European Space Agency’s...

Russia will spend about $ 1 billion for the construction of the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur region, said Vladimir Popovkin, the head of Roskosmos,...

Paleontologists have discovered a group of more than 20 polar dinosaur tracks on the coast of Victoria, Australia, offering a rare glimpse into animal...

After a journey of almost three years, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet’s Endeavour crater to study rocks...