An enormous black hole located in the center of the galaxy cluster RX J1532.9+3021 (RX J1532 for short) is one of the most powerful black holes in the...
Scientists led by Dr Bruce Archibald of Simon Fraser University have discovered three extinct species of big-headed flies that lived in what is modern...
Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) say they have unearthed a 1,500-year-old Christian church with a magnificent mosaic and five...
Dr Joseph Parker, a biologist with both Columbia University and the American Museum of Natural History, has described a new genus of rove beetles from...
Scientists from Brazil and the United Kingdom have described a new species of true river dolphin from the Araguaia River basin, the first such discovery...
A new species of prehistoric hoatzin from the late Eocene of France is the earliest fossil record of hoatzins and the first one from Europe, according...
An international group of astronomers led by Dr Vincent Van Eylen of Aarhus University, Denmark, has discovered a Neptune-sized extrasolar planet orbiting...
Marine biologists from Japan and Australia have described a new species of eagle ray in the genus Aetobatus.
Aetobatus narutobiei, adult male. Image credit:...
Astronomers using the Herschel Space Observatory have detected water vapor on the dwarf planet Ceres, the biggest object in the main asteroid belt.
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Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope in Chile have captured a new view deep inside the Lagoon Nebula, also known as Messier 8 or NGC 6523.
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Physicists from CERN’s Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons (ASACUSA) project say they have produced at least 80 atoms of antihydrogen.
Hydrogen’s...
Climate change, violence and disease played a key role in the collapse of the Harappan civilization more than 3,000 years ago, according to a new study.
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Researchers from the Antarctic Geological Drilling (ANDRILL) Program have described a new species of anemone from waters beneath the Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
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Using the 10-m Keck I Telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory in Hawaii, an international group of astronomers has discovered a distant quasar illuminating...
By using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), Japanese astronomers have spotted strong evidence of a massive planet-forming disk around...
New research published in the journal Nature Communications has found that chimpanzees can use gestures to coordinate actions in pursuit of a specific...
Biologists from Czech Republic, the United States and Peru have described a new species of the true toad genus Rhinella.
Rhinella yunga, adult female....
