Using data from ESA’s Gaia star-mapping spacecraft, a team of astronomers from Austria and the United States has discovered a wave-shaped arrangement...
Archaeologists have unearthed 170,000-year-old whole, charred rhizomes of flowering plants from the genus Hypoxis in a cave in southern Africa. These botanical...
Astronomers using the Faint Object Infrared Camera for the SOFIA Telescope (FORCAST) instrument onboard NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared...
Long-term treatment with lingonberry (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) juice lowered the already elevated blood pressure and improved the function of blood vessels...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, the agency’s Spitzer Space Telescope and other facilities, astronomers have discovered a compact...
An international team of researchers has presented strong evidence that individual clusters of twenty gold atoms (Au20) take on a pyramidal shape.
A 3D...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered a massive exoplanet orbiting two stars in the TOI-1338 system.
An...
Since exoplanets are so far away, astronomers cannot look for signs of extraterrestrial life by visiting these distant worlds. Instead, they must use a...
A team of researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey has mapped a rare earth element-bearning deposit in the Mountain Pass region of the eastern Mojave...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has snapped a stunning new image of UGC 2885, a barred spiral galaxy located some 232 million light-years away in the...
Young lava flows detected by ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft are just few years old, according to new research from Universities Space Research Association...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have detected 1,216 superflare events on 400 solar-type stars. One of these stars,...
The red brittle star (Ophiocoma wendtii), a relative of starfish that inhabits coral reefs from Bermuda to Brazil, first captured scientific attention...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing photo of a spiral galaxy called NGC 2770.
This Hubble image shows NGC 2770, a spiral galaxy...
A Roman merchant ship and its amphorae cargo have been found lying at the bottom of Ionian Sea, the eastern Mediterranean, around 2,000 years after it...
Researchers from the Molecular Foundry at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory have found a way to convert nanoparticle-coated microscopic plastic beads...
Astronomers using the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) have discovered an extremely large off-centered ring of neutral hydrogen gas around AGC 203001,...
In September 2019, the Hubble team announced a social media initiative to celebrate three decades of success in discoveries with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...