A team of researchers observing and filming orangutans at a research facility in Indonesia has found that they may be smarter than previously thought.
Wild...
An international team of scientists has suggested that asteroid impact craters may be the best place to look for signs of life on Mars and other planets.
Hellas...
An international team of researchers has discovered the fossilized skull of a new species of coelacanth, which is more than 400 million years old, about...
Astronomers have for the first time captured images of auroras above the giant planet Uranus.
Uranus auroras, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope in...
A team of researchers has found that bats take advantage of their flexibility by folding in their wings on the upstroke to save inertial energy.
Efficiencies...
An international team of astronomers has found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from...
An international group of scientists led by Dr. Barnaby Norris from the University of Sydney in Australia using new techniques which allowed them to look...
An international team of paleontologists has unearthed the oldest known fossil reptile embryos dating back about 280 million years.
An artist’s reconstruction...
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 4980, located around 80 million light years away in the constellation of Hydra.
Spiral...
ESA’s Mars Express has returned some remarkable new imagery of Tractus Catena area, revealing a series of pit-chains on the flanks of Alba Mons, one...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 70 million years old pocket of fossilized bones and unique eggs of an enigmatic birdlike dinosaur...
An international team of archaeologists and paleoecologists analyzing records of pollen, charcoal and other plant remains like phytoliths spanning more...
A team of researchers has found that people who received frequent dental X-rays in the past have an increased risk of developing meningioma, the most commonly...
Scientists from the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC, using images from NASA’s two Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory (STEREO-A and STEREO-B)...
A new species of velvetfish in the genus Pseudopataecus has been discovered in coastal waters of Western Australia.
The Bearded Velvetfish, Pseudopataecus...
A team of scientists has established a clear cause-and-effect relationship between rising levels of carbon dioxide and global warming that ended the last...
An international team of researchers analyzing Google search queries has found that Internet users from countries with a higher per capita gross domestic...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered fossils of the largest feathered dinosaur known to date.
An artist’s impression of a group of...
Scientists using observations from two ESA’s spacecrafts have created a multi-wavelength view of cataclysmic events taking place within the giant galaxy...