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[ad_1] Ancient Mars is increasingly seen as a dwelling place for life. The famous Mars meteorite Allan Hills 84001 (ALH84001) contains 4 billion-year-old native organic molecules, the building blocks of life that contain carbon as we know it, a new study suggests. And that’s not all. Organics contain nitrogen, another …

[ad_1] The 83-year-old grandfather committed suicide in the running of the bulls because he was afraid of catching the insect and that the world would never be the same. Dennis Ward, 83, felt vulnerable and was struggling to deal with life locked up Grandson James Parnaby said he committed suicide …

[ad_1] Media playback is not supported on your device Media captionDr. Geoff Evatt: “The vast majority of objects that hit Earth are really small” A team of scientists from the UK has provided a new estimate of the amount of space rock that falls to Earth each year. Exceeds 16,000 …

[ad_1] An amazing photo revealed the moment an enormous asteroid flew over Earth yesterday, losing our planet by around 3.9 million miles. Called 52768 (1998 OR2), the asteroid made its closest approach to Earth around 10:56 BST yesterday, at which time it was about 3.9 million miles from Earth. While …

[ad_1] Scientists have discovered a “crazy beast” mammal that lived alongside dinosaurs in Madagascar approximately 66 million years ago. It was the size of a modern cat or opossum, according to researchers at Stony Brook University in the US. And the skeleton is the most complete for any mammal discovered …

[ad_1] Yesterday, as the UK rose for another day of self-isolation, an enormous asteroid shot past Earth, missing our planet by around 3.9 million miles (which isn’t actually all that much, in space terms). As if we don’t have enough to be worrying about at the moment, right? The asteroid, …

[ad_1] In the depths of space 3.5 billion light-years away, two supermassive black holes are locked in one of the most extreme orbital dances in the Universe. His spiral of unbridled and somewhat erratic death has been documented for decades. With new observations, astronomers have characterized the way they rotate …