American "moon rocks" turned out to be an earthly petrified tree
A fragment of lunar soil stored in the Dutch Museum Rijksmuseum turned out to be a piece of petrified wood. The opening is reported by BBC News.
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A fragment of lunar soil stored in the Dutch Museum Rijksmuseum turned out to be a piece of petrified wood. The opening is reported by BBC News.
A rare "walking" fish has been spotted in the southeastern part of Australia for the first time in a quarter of a century.
A resident of Michigan turned to specialists with a request to evaluate the stone, which had been lying on his farm for decades, for meteoritic origin. The result exceeded expectations.
In the capital of South Africa, a new huge funnel 4 meters wide has formed in the middle of a busy road, News24 reports.
Objects appear and disappear in the vastness of our universe, allowing us to look into the secrets of outer space.
Astronomers are eagerly awaiting a possible response to a message sent into space 40 years ago.
In a groundbreaking study, scientists have unveiled an amazing discovery: South American frogs have an amazing ability to glow in the dark. The study was published in the journal bioRxiv
For decades, in some parts of the UK, especially in Scotland, there have been stories of mysterious, almost mystical "big cats" resembling cougars, black leopards or jaguars.
Aliens and UFOs seem to have moved from movies to real life, especially in mainstream US news. To ignite an already raging discussion about the existence of extraterrestrial beings, a video with an
The video, shot by an Australian user TikTok, caused a wave of interest from scientists and fans. In the footage, you can see a humpback whale doing a rare "headstand".
At the Cameron Park Zoo in the US state of Texas, a very special reptile was again presented to the public, namely a two-headed rat snake, which has two brains and one body.
Recently, a SpaceX rocket "punched" a hole in the upper layers of the Earth's atmosphere, going into space.