Sponges may have been the first animals on Earth, study suggests

Photo: NASA/Dan Gallagher Scientists have found some of the most convincing evidence yet that life could have formed on Mars. The discovery comes from organic molecules detected in rock samples from

Photo: Getty Images Archaeologists have discovered that more than 7,000 years ago, people in what is now Sweden buried their dead dressed in garments decorated with fur and feathers. A new soil-anal

Photo: ESO/L. Calçada One of the largest stars in the universe is doing something unusual, and scientists are still debating what it means. WOH G64, a star in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is one of

Photo: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH Lab-grown brain organoids managed to balance an unstable vertical pole, demonstrating how living neural circuits can be guided to so

Photo: Getty Images Ordinary flies “smell” their food with their feet, some butterflies can produce a piercing squeak to protect themselves, and cockroaches might actually survive a “nuclear blast.”

Photo: David Matzliach, Cambridge Archaeological Unit / © University of Cambridge Several people’s remains lay in the burial. Archaeologists have discovered a Viking-age burial in England containin

Photo: chinadaily China tests rocket and crewed spacecraft for Moon missions, reports China Daily. The space mission On February 11, a demonstration test flight of the Long March-10 rocket and th

Photo: expert Elon Musk has announced that SpaceX has shifted its near-term priorities from colonizing Mars to building what he calls a “self-sustaining city on the Moon,” citing the lunar objective