A team of astronomers from the University of Washington and NASA Astrobiology Institute’s Virtual Planetary Laboratory has created the ‘Habitability...
Dr Rainer Günther, a German herpetologist at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, and his colleagues from Australia and Indonesia have described two new...
Nix and Hydra, two of Pluto’s small moons, appear in glorious sharpness in close-up pictures released this week by a New Horizons team member.
Nix is...
This dramatic view looking toward the higher regions of Mount Sharp, a 3-mile (5 km) peak at the center of Red Planet’s Gale Crater, was taken on September...
Nearly 30 percent of 1,478 known cactus species are on the verge of extinction, according to a new report published yesterday in the journal Nature Plants.
Cacti...
Dr Jake Esselstyn of Louisiana State University and his colleagues from Indonesia and Australia have discovered a new genus and species of shrew rat in...
A team of astronomers from Chile, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands, has found a new, highly accurate way to measure the mass of young pulsars.
This...
In 1986, after a catastrophic nuclear accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Soviet Union released radioactive particles into the environment,...
This new image of a mid-level solar flare was captured by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) at 8:13 p.m. EDT on October 1, 2015. The image is a...
An international team of paleontologists has found a specimen of a previously unknown species of mammal from the early Paleocene, about 65 million years...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the planetary nebula Menzel 2, which is found in the southern constellation Norma.
This composite...
NASA scientists want to send small, low-cost space probes to study Venus, near-Earth objects, 16 Psyche and other asteroids.
Artist’s concept of NASA’s...
Cancer risk has been found to increase with height in both genders, says a large, long-term study from Sweden.
The large-scale study discovers link between...
An international team of scientists from India and the United States has uncovered evidence that a massive comet or asteroid impact on Earth 66 million...
In 2013, a rare and beautiful variety of orchid appeared in cultivation under the commercial trade name ‘Big Pink.’ Now, research by Dutch and Australian...
