The first compositional data from NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft about Pluto’s small, irregularly shaped moon Hydra show the moon’s surface is dominated...
Atmospherically transported dust from the Sahara Desert, the largest desert in the world, is bringing iron and other nutrients to underwater plants in...
A team of scientists from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona State University, Carnegie Institute of Washington and Johns Hopkins University Applied...
Nearly two years ago, an international team of paleontologists discovered a bizarre fossil — Atopodentatus unicus, a 10 feet (3 m) long marine reptile...
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is likely the best of the grand-design spiral galaxy NGC 6814.
This Hubble image shows NGC 6814,...
In a paper published in the journal Genetics, scientists from the University of North Dakota and the University of Minnesota present multiple lines of...
According to a team of scientists led by Prof. Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gases emitted by alien life forms on habitable...
In a study published online in the journal Science, paleontologists from China and the United States report the discovery of a diverse primate fauna from...
An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Aaron Barth of the University of California, Irvine, has derived a precise measurement of the mass of a...
An international team of scientists has described a previously unknown species of wasp from South Africa and has named it Conobregma bradpitti, after the...
An international group of astronomers led by Dr. Rachael Roettenbacher from the University of Michigan has used cutting-edge techniques to create direct...
According to a new research, leopards have lost as much as 75% of their historic range.
A leopard (Panthera pardus). Image credit: Joseph Lemeris.
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Three teams of scientists have taken a detailed look into the biogeochemistry, geophysics and geology of subglacial Lake Whillans, which lies 2,600 feet...
An international team of botanists has described a new subgenus of plants and named it after the notable American ornithologist James Bond.
Left: Alternanthera...
Earlier this year California Institute of Technology scientists Konstantin Batygin and Mike Brown presented strong evidence for Planet Nine, a hypothesized...
Our planet could contain roughly 1 trillion microbial species, with only 0.001% now identified, says a duo of scientists at Indiana University.
This colorized...
Analyses of genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from 7,000 – 45,000 years ago reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely...
An international team of scientists has completely sequenced the mitochondrial genome of the Hispaniolan solenodon (a venomous, insectivorous mammal that...
