Glasses formed by asteroid impacts are an important target to search for signs of ancient life on Mars, but until now they have not been detected on the...
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has captured an impressive picture of a fresh...
A new animated video by NASA’s Dawn mission scientists provides dramatic flyover views of the dwarf planet Ceres.
The video is based on observations...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) radio telescope in Chile have captured detailed images of the gravitationally...
According to a new study published in the journal Science Advances, a 9-meter-long three-horned dinosaur called the Triceratops developed teeth that could...
The Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken an image of the dwarf irregular galaxy PGC 18431.
This image shows the...
Scientists using the Murchison Widefield Array in the Western Australian desert have confirmed the existence of tubular plasma structures between the plasmasphere...
Three large vertebrae, believed to be that of an ancient, gigantic shark, have been discovered in Texas by members of the Paleontology Club of the University...
New observations with the Advanced Camera for Surveys on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope confirm that two Type Ia supernovae discovered six years ago...
A group of archaeologists led by Dr Christopher Standish from the University of Bristol and the University of Southampton suggests people were trading...
Paleontologists at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology in Drumheller, Canada, have described a new genus and species of ceratopsid (horned dinosaur)...
A group of paleontologists, led by Catherine Klein from the University of Bristol, UK, has put together the remains of a new small species of prehistoric...
A group of scientists led by Prof Marcio Pie of the Universidade Federal do Paraná in Brazil has described seven new species of the frog genus Brachycephalus...
Many glacial lakes atop the Greenland Ice Sheet disappear completely within hours when large cracks form below them, draining the lakes and sending torrents...
A team of researchers led by Dr Roderick Davidson II of Vanderbilt University has created nano-spirals with unique optical properties that would be almost...
The well-preserved fossil of a previously unknown toothed bird that lived during the Cretaceous period, some 115 million years ago, has been found in the...
A team of astronomers using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has found that two of Pluto’s small moons, Nix and Hydra, are not neatly...
According to a new study published online in the journal BMC Neuroscience, taste receptors of felines respond in a unique way to bitter compounds compared...
A tiny Australian bird, the brown thornbill (Acanthiza pusilla), mimics the hawk warning calls of neighboring bird species to protect its nest from predators...
