A striking new image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the galaxy NGC 4490. The scattered and warped appearance of the galaxy is the...
A new study led by University of Adelaide researcher Jeremy Austin traces the history of Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) populations over the last 30,000 years.
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The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has photographed the farthest-discovered active inbound comet, C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS). The comet’s orbit indicates...
Sorghum was domesticated from its wild ancestor more than 5,000 years ago, according to archaeological evidence uncovered by University College London...
Using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have produced the first detailed optical maps of the gas and dust distributed throughout the spectacular...
The LIGO Scientific Collaboration and the Virgo Collaboration report the first joint detection of gravitational waves, ripples in the fabric of space and...
Strange formations are found at the highest altitudes on the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto. They resemble giant knife blades of ice and can soar many...
New research, reported in the journal Nature, changes scientists’ understanding of how terrestrial planets attain their physical and chemical characteristics.
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The MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has taken a picture of NGC 1964, an incredibly beautiful spiral galaxy in the constellation...
An antibody that protects against dengue virus is also effective against Zika in mice, according to a new study published in the journal Nature Immunology.
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Dr. Jean-Baptiste Thiebot, a marine biologist at the National Institute of Polar Research in Tokyo, Japan, and colleagues have documented nearly 200 cases...
The Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio cholerae (causative agent of cholera) is armed with a nano-speargun, which it uses to combat unwelcome competitors....
A team of spider experts and students from the University of Vermont has discovered and described 15 new species of the spider genus Spintharus from the...
The oxygen level in J0811+4730, a star-forming dwarf galaxy in the constellation Lynx, some 630 million light-years away, is the lowest yet discovered...
Dr. Manuel Perger, a postdoctoral researcher at Spain’s Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), and colleagues have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet...
A team of researchers at the University of Exeter, UK, studied how Trinidadian guppies (Poecilia reticulata) behaved in various situations and found complex...
This striking image of Jupiter was captured by NASA’s Juno spacecraft as it performed its eighth flyby of the giant planet.
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