The idea was given even more credence in 2007 when NASA captured images of 'skylights' on Mars - showing that caves do exist on the red planet, giving us four walls and a roof. full story ![]()

“It's almost too beautiful,” said the first scientist to descend into the Lascaux caves, according to “Scenes From the Stone Age: The Cave Paintings of Lascaux,” an important and highly engaging new exhibit at the Field Museum. Hundreds of paintings of animals — and just one human — adorned the white calcite walls of what has since been billed the “Sistine Chapel of...
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How cute was our universe as a baby? We now know better than ever -- the picture of our early universe just got sharper, and tells scientists with greater precision many important facts about how the universe evolved.
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The universe has hidden its age well. The European Space Agency's Planck space telescope has scanned the skies for the Big Bang's fingerprint and discovered that the universe is about 100 mill…
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When cave dwellers come to mind, we can't help but think about the typical Stone Age nomad, struggling to build a fire with a club and spear nearby. So when we found out that modern-day cave dwellers existed, we had to take a look. And it turns out, some of these dwellings are more luxurious than mansions. Enter: the contemporary cave resident. Though they all come from...
huffingtonpost.com (2 months and 22 days ago)
The Planck, a European Space Agency mission, which one scientist called the" Ferrari" of such specialized missions, released what is being billed as the most detailed map ever made of the oldest light in the universe which is changing the way astronomers view the age of the universe, and more.
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These findings have changed the way we see our solar system. This article originally ran November 15, 2012. We've dusted it off to celebrate the four-year anniversary of Kepler's lift off.--Eds This week NASA announced its planet-hunter, the Kepler Space Telescope, just completed its primary mission. It’s far from retired--Kepler got a nice long extension back in April, so...
popsci.com (2 months and 16 days ago)

'Space Invaders' image caused by graviational lensing. The sun in different wavelengths, a solar eclipse, planets, nebulae, images from the Hubble Telescope showing the most distant view yet of galaxies in the universe, plus other space pictures from the Final Frontier.
abcnews.com (1 month and 22 days ago)

A new image acquired by the European Space Agency's (ESA) Planck space telescope provides an unprecedented view of the oldest light in the Universe. The image represents the most detailed mapping of cosmic microwave background (CMB) ever created and both solidifies and questions our current understanding of the Universe. ..
gizmag.com (2 months and 2 days ago)

The Planck space probe looks back at the afterglow of the Big Bang, and the results have put the age of the universe at 13.81 billion years.
oregonlive.com (2 months and 1 day ago)

The universe has hidden its age well. The European Space Agency’s Planck space telescope has scanned the skies for the Big Bang’s fingerprint and discovered that the universe is about 100 million years older than thought, and that there’s more normal matter and dark matter filling the cosmos.
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