A team of U.S. astronomers has made a surprising discovery using data collected by NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission: a star called WASP-47, a previously known...
A new study claims to have found evidence that life existed on our planet at least 4.1 billion years ago – about 300 million years earlier than prior...
The first dogs were domesticated about 15,000 years ago in Central Asia, perhaps near present-day Nepal and Mongolia, suggests a genetic study published...
This new image from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows the central part of Mangala Valles, a system of channels on Mars. The image was taken by Mars Express’...
A particle called meson f0(1710) is the elusive ‘glueball,’ an exotic particle composed of pure force, according to a team of physicists at the Technische...
An endemic and previously unknown species of shorebird has been identified from fossils found in Central Otago, New Zealand.
Artist’s concept of Hakawai...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of Messier 94.
This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 shows the...
A team of Thai botanists has announced the discovery of what they say is a new species of wild banana.
Musa nanensis: male inflorescence. Image credit:...
NASA scientists have released the best views yet of the northern extremes of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The images were collected as the agency’s Cassini...
According to a new paper in the journal Current Biology, honeybees may select caffeinated nectar over an uncaffeinated but otherwise equal-quality alternative....
Some species of dinosaurs had the ability to warm themselves by drawing heat from the Sun, according to an international team of paleontologists from the...
The dwarf planet Pluto displays a wide variety of geological landforms, including those resulting from glaciological and surface-atmosphere interactions...
Mafic Mound, a distinctive and enigmatic feature near the Moon’s south pole, is a volcanic structure unlike any other found on the surface of the Earth’s...
An international team of paleontologists from Belgium, France and Mongolia, has unearthed an exceptional block of perinatal specimens (babies) of the giant...
A new species of coffee tree has been described from the Cusuco National Park, a national park in Honduras.
Sommera cusucoana: tip of shoot with flower,...
A discovery of 47 human teeth from the Fuyan Cave in the Chinese province of Hunan indicates that anatomically modern Homo sapiens were present in southern...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a 125-million-year-old ancient mammal fossil, which has been named a new species, in Spain. According...
This image from the Wide Field Imager, a camera installed on the MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile, shows part of the huge...
