Animation des Perseverance Rover, der auf dem Mars fährt. NASA/JPL-Caltech
Das Sammeln von Proben während der Erkundung eines alten und jetzt trockenen Flusskanals ist nur ein Ziel, das der sechsrädrige Geologe während seiner zweiten Erkundung des Roten Planeten verfolgen wird.
Nach dem Sammeln von acht Gesteinskernproben aus seiner ersten wissenschaftlichen Kampagne und einem rekordverdächtigen 31-Mars-Tag (oder Sol)-Sprint über etwa 3 Meilen (5 Kilometer) von Mars, NASA‘s Perseverance-Rover traf am 13. April vor der Haustür des alten Flussdeltas des
There are few countries like it. In the winter, you can go skiing in the morning in the north, and by evening be sitting on a warm beach with a cocktail in the south.
You can enjoy world-class nightlife in one of the world’s most liberal cities, or spend the day at the most vibrant – and conservative – religious sites on earth, whether Jewish, Christian or Muslim.
I speak, of course, of Israel, where my fiancee Roxanna and I
No one is entirely sure why, or even how, the mighty Stonehenge was built around 5,000 years ago.
Now, a new study argues the world-famous Wilshire monument served as an ancient solar calendar, helping people track the days of the year.
Professor Timothy Darvill, an archaeologist at Bournemouth University, has analysed the numbers and positioning of Stonehenge’s great sandstone slabs, called sarsens.
Sarsens form all 15 stones of Stonehenge’s central horseshoe, the uprights and lintels of the outer circle, as
The discovery of a new species of ancient crocodile is enough to make any palaeontologist’s year, but one team in Australia was in for even more of a treat after discovering the remains of a dinosaur as well.
The partly-digested remains of a young ornithopod dinosaur were discovered in the stomach of the new species of crocodile called Confractosuchus sauroktonos, which roamed Australia 95 million years ago.
The fossilised bones were recovered from a sheep station near the north western
An amateur archaeologist exploring a dried-out, ancient stream channel called Blackwater Draw near Clovis, New Mexico, made a startling discovery in 1929. He came across chiseled stone points strewn among mammoth fossils. Razor-sharp edges bordering each artifact gracefully curved up to a pointed tip. Thin grooves chipped into the bases of these stone points suggested that they were spearpoints that people had once attached to handles or poles.
Researchers who examined the Blackwater Draw finds saw them as clear evidence
An Iron Age village in Northamptonshire developed into a wealthy Roman trading town, archaeologists working on the HS2 high-speed rail project have revealed.
Stunning discoveries made during a dig of the site near the village of Chipping Warden – known as Blackgrounds after the black soil found there – include cremation urns, gaming pieces, shackles, a snake-head brooch and more than 300 Roman coins.
Evidence suggests the settlement was established in about 400 BC when it was made up of
These mesmerising pictures show just how magical and Middle-earth-like England’s woodlands can be.
They are the work of landscape photographer Richard Searle, a music composer who also runs a fledgling photography business, and were mostly taken in his home county, Surrey.
Searle turns his camera on gnarled tree trunks and beds of moss and ferns, often capturing beautiful mist-laden scenes in the Surrey Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and in the oakwoods of Dartmoor, Devon.
He tells
After a busy first day of their official mini tour of the Middle East – including a lavish dinner at Al Husseiniya Palace in Amman yesterday evening, the Prince of Wales and the Duchess of Cornwall arrived in Umm Qais, the site of the ancient city of Gadara, on Wednesday morning.
The second day of their visit, delayed by almost two years due to the Covid pandemic, saw the couple make a 75-mile hop north of the Jordanian capital to
Containerschiffe im Hafen von Los Angeles, Morgenlicht zwischen Bergen in der Schweiz, ein tragbares Kuscheltier in Frankreich, Dragracing in Tennessee, einen Gletscher in Österreich erkunden, ein Ironman-Triathlon in Spanien, eine Fackelzeremonie in Griechenland für den Pekinger Winter 2022 Olympia, Lachsschwimmen stromaufwärts nach Nordengland und vieles mehr
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In The Descent of Man, published in 1871, Charles Darwin hypothesized that our ancestors came from Africa. He pointed out that among all animals, the African apes — gorillas and chimpanzees — were the most similar to humans. But he had little fossil evidence. The few known human fossils had been found in Europe, and those that trickled in over the next 50 years came from Europe and from Asia.
Had Darwin picked the wrong continent?
Finally, in 1924,
