A new image acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a run out of the Aurorae Chaos region.
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A 78-million-year-old herbivorous horned dinosaur has been identified from a fossil found in the Tar Heel Formation (Black Creek Group) in North Carolina.
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A team of genetic researchers, led by Dr Jose de Vega of the Genome Analysis Center and Aberystwyth University, UK, has successfully sequenced the genome...
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the dusty structure encircling the center of a distant galaxy known as NGC 2768.
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A ‘dinosaur’ fossil known as Bathygnathus borealis has been shown to have steak knife-like teeth, and a team of Canadian paleontologists has changed...
This close-up view of Dione was taken by NASA’s Cassini robotic probe during its flyby of this icy moon of Saturn on August 17, 2015.
Dione in front...
A group of scientists, led by Dr Sjoert van Velzen of Johns Hopkins University, has observed a new way for plasma to escape the gravitational pull of a...
Animations that compress more than two decades of satellite images into one second reveal the complex behavior and flow of glaciers in the Karakoram mountain...
NASA scientists, using cameras aboard the agency’s Dawn spacecraft, have created the first detailed mosaics of Ceres’ north and south polar regions.
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Using black widow spiders, a team of scientists has successfully extracted, amplified, and sequenced mitochondrial DNA from spider webs that identified...
New observations of an unusual star called KIC 8462852 by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that its strange light signals are likely from extrasolar...
A multinational team of scientists led by Tufts University biologists has succeeded in inducing a species of planarian, Girardia dorotocephala, to grow...
A group of Greek and German archaeologists has discovered a 300,000 to 600,000 year old elephant butchering site near the modern-day city of Megalopolis,...
New observations from the Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile show how enormous size of dust particles surrounding the hypergiant...
A group of entomologists led by Dr Christopher Reid of the University of Sydney has discovered complex bridges constructed by Eciton army ants with their...
Three inch (7 cm) long herbivorous wasps flew through the landscapes of what is now British Columbia some 53 million years ago, according to Dr Alexandr...
Our planet, Jupiter and other compact bodies are surrounded by ultra-dense filaments of dark matter called ‘hairs,’ suggests Dr Gary Prézeau of NASA’s...
