Negev Petroglyphs of Animals. Credit: Laura Rabbachin, INTK, Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna The Negev Desert in southern Israel is known for its unique rock art. Since at least the third millennium BCE, hunters, herders, and traders roaming the Negev have left thousands of engravings (petroglyphs) on the rocks. These figures are usually carved into … Read more
A small black rock brought back by a student from a study trip through the Western Australian outback has been broken open to reveal the remains of 2.4 billion-year-old creatures. The remarkable thing about these microfossils is that they appear to be more complex than anything that existed at the time. Not just a few … Read more
NASA’s Perseverance rover, known as Percy, is designed to explore Mars’ Jezero Crater as part of NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. It successfully landed on the Red Planet on February 18, 2021 and has been providing scientists with crucial information ever since. Recently, the rover attracted a lot of scientific attention because it discovered something truly … Read more
On September 24, 2023, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft dropped a capsule on Earth containing pristine carbonaceous regolith collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. These samples were obtained after the probe completed an impressive seven-year tour of the solar system and back. Since these pieces of space rock arrived (about 120 grams of sample, to be precise), … Read more
Editor’s Note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s science newsletter Wonder Theory. To receive it in your inbox, Register for free here. CNN — About 67 million years ago, two dinosaurs faced off in a confrontation in what is now Montana before being buried together in a single grave. It is unclear which … Read more
While exploring a crater on Mars that could give scientists insight into life that may once have existed there, NASA said its Perseverance rover made an unprecedented discovery. The rover, which landed on the Red Planet in 2021 specifically to explore the ancient Jezero crater, found a mysterious light-colored boulder earlier this month that was … Read more
If you look at this Mars vista brings back childhood memories of the song: “One of these things is not like the others”, NASA scientists are there with you. Perseverance, a six-wheeled laboratory the size of a car, traveled to the Red Planet’s Neretva Vallis last week. Although this region may look like an arid … Read more
Much has changed in the approximately 4.5 billion years since the solar system first emerged from a disk-shaped cloud of swirling dust and gas. The stuff from which everything is formed has undergone some serious changes: packed into planets, blown up by solar radiation and plasma, changed by interactions with other atoms. The basic components … Read more
A father-daughter duo from the Cowboy State didn’t know it at the time, but the large rock they found is a massive discovery that’s 2.5 billion years old and a unique find for Wyoming rock hounds. The large rock found by Laramie resident Patrick Corcoran and his daughter Cora is called a banded iron formation. … Read more
Analysis Hudson Rock, citing legal pressure from Snowflake, has removed its online report claiming that miscreants broke into the cloud storage and analytics giant’s underlying systems and stole data from potentially hundreds of customers, including Ticketmaster and Santander Bank. More specifically, the infosec house reported that criminals obtained a Snowflake employee’s work credentials using info-stealing … Read more