With the help of ancient fossils unearthed in northeastern Brazil, an international team of paleontologists has identified several amphibian species and...
Thanks to NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter, scientists have learned more about what happened to the Martian climate since...
A multinational team of scientists – led by Dr Senjie Lin of Xiamen University and the University of Connecticut – has mapped the genome of Symbiodinium...
A fresh crater caught attention of New Horizons team members as they were studying high-resolution infrared image of Pluto’s largest moon.
This composite...
According to a large international team of physicists, the attractive force between antiprotons is similar to that between protons.
A new measurement by...
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a new giant raptor that lived in what is now South Dakota during the Maastrichtian stage of the Upper...
Diamond formation in the very deep Earth may be a more common process than previously thought, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications.
Diamonds....
Using digital models and computer analyses, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol, UK, has studied the muscle strain during jaw opening of three...
Astronomers have detected layers of clouds – made up of hot dust and droplets of molten iron – on a planet-like object known as PSO J318.5338–22.8603...
Archaeologists digging at the site of the ancient city of Doliche in Turkey have uncovered a stunning mosaic that would’ve been used as the floor of...
A multinational team of scientists has sequenced genomes of a wild pineapple relative, the red pineapple (Ananas bracteatus), and two cultivated varieties...
A tiny snail shell with a diameter of 0.028 inches (0.7 mm) was found on the Malaysian portion of the island of Borneo by a group of scientists from the...
A team of scientists from the University of Washington and the University of Toronto is the first to simulate 3D exotic clouds in the atmosphere of an...
Dr Shoshanna Cole, a planetary researcher at Ithaca College, has pieced together a compelling story about how acidic water vapors may have eaten at the...
A new species of woolly horseshoe bat has been described from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
The Francis’ woolly horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus francisi). Image...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable view of the distant lenticular galaxy Markarian 820.
This Hubble image...
NASA has released a series of breathtaking images of Enceladus, a frozen moon of Saturn, captured by the agency’s Cassini spacecraft.
Cassini captured...
