NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has returned stunning new images of Saturn and its two moons, Janus and Mimas.
This image shows Saturn’s moon Janus. Image...
A new study of the bones of hundreds of humans who lived during the past 33,000 years in Europe finds the rise of agriculture and a corresponding fall...
A group of scientists co-led by University of Pittsburgh biologists Dr Nathan Morehouse and Dr Daniel Zurek has found that spiders in the American genus...
Rosetta mission scientists have discovered an unusual geological formation in the Aker region on the large lobe of 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
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Astronomers using the Dragonfly Telephoto Array and the 10m telescope at the W.M. Keck Observatory on Maunakea, Hawaiʻi, have discovered 47 so-called...
According to marine biologists led by Dr Kimberly Prather from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, a factor that determines the properties of clouds...
A chemical signature recorded on otoliths (ear bones) of Chinook salmon could tell scientists where the fish lived, says a new study published in the journal...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Amiyaal Ilany of the University of Pennsylvania, spotted hyenas (Crocuta crocuta) prefer to have friendship...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 and the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an image of a titanic...
According to new research published online today in the journal Science, sex equality in residential decision-making explains the unique social structure...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured snapshots of fledging white dwarfs beginning their slow-paced, 40-million-year migration...
A new study published in the journal Current Biology shows that the response of fruit flies (Drosophila sp.) to visual threats includes many essential...
Astronomers using two 10-m optical/infrared telescopes at the W. M. Keck Observatory have discovered the first quadruple quasar, catalogued as SDSS J0841+3921.
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A team of researchers led by Dr Nicholas Wegner of NOAA Fisheries’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center has discovered a whole-body form of endothermy...
Trap-jaw ants can use their powerful mandibles to hurl themselves out of harm’s way when an antlion stalks, says a team of entomologists at the University...
According to a new study published in the journal Nature, the primary mechanism for stopping star formation in galaxies is the so-called ‘strangulation,’...
An international group of astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope at the Paranal Observatory in northern Chile has discovered a never-seen-before...
The CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) and LHCb (Large Hadron Collider beauty) collaborations at CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland report the first...
A team of scientists led by Prof Martin Zwierlein of MIT-Harvard Center for Ultracold Atoms and Research Laboratory of Electronics has built a microscope...
