Nov 24, 2021 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have spotted several ‘proplyds’ and ‘globulettes’ in the Flame Nebula. This Hubble image...

Nov 24, 2021 by News Staff

A new long-term study led by Edith Cowan University scientists further supports the hypothesis that coffee intake may be a protective factor against Alzheimer’s...

Nov 24, 2021 by News Staff

Using seismic data collected by the SEIS (Seismic Experiment for Interior Structure) instrument aboard NASA’s InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic...

Nov 23, 2021 by Sergio Prostak

Paleontologists working in Brazil have uncovered the fossil of an ornithuromorph bird that lived during the Early Cretaceous epoch. Life reconstruction...

Nov 23, 2021 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA’s XMM-Newton satellite, astronomers have investigated unusual X-ray activity in three white dwarfs:...

Nov 23, 2021 by News Staff

Hydrogen is the most abundant element. When a neutral hydrogen atom gets blasted with energy, its electron can be boosted to a larger orbit with a higher...

Nov 23, 2021 by News Staff

A white dwarf in the binary system LAMOST J024048.51+195226.9 (J0240+1952 for short) completes a full rotation once every 24.93 seconds, making it the...

Nov 23, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The Hubble team has released a striking image captured by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope showing a small section of the Prawn Nebula (IC 4628). This...

Nov 22, 2021 by News Staff

The two new frog species have been scientifically described with the help of citizen scientists and their recordings through the FrogID app. The screaming...

Nov 22, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shot this image of a large star-forming region known as the Flame Nebula. This Hubble image shows the Flame Nebula....

Nov 22, 2021 by News Staff

In a new paper published in the Journal of the Geological Society, University of Edinburgh’s Dr. Sean McMahon and University of Oxford’s Dr. Julie...

Nov 22, 2021 by News Staff

Archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have unearthed a Hellenistic fortified structure as well as weapons, burnt wooden beams and...

Nov 22, 2021 by News Staff

What makes SGAS 0033+02, an extremely distant galaxy in the constellation of Pisces, interesting is a little unusual — it appears not just once in...

Nov 19, 2021 by News Staff

A 30-year-old woman from the city of Esperanza, Argentina — the so-called Esperanza Patient — appears to be the second person whose immune...

Nov 19, 2021 by News Staff

Hubble’s snapshots of the outer Solar System’s planets — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — reveal both extreme and subtle changes...

Nov 19, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of toothless noasaurid ceratosaur has been identified from an exceptionally complete skeleton found in southern Brazil. Life reconstruction...

Nov 19, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking infrared image of a protostar called J1672835.29-763111.64 (J1672 for short). This...

Nov 18, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

Named Pisces VII/Triangulum (Tri) III, the newly-discovered galaxy is an ultra-faint dwarf satellite candidate of the Triangulum galaxy (also known as...

Nov 18, 2021 by Natali Anderson

The newly-discovered octopus species inhabits the shallow waters off southwest Australia and belongs to the Octopus vulgaris group, according to a new...

Nov 18, 2021 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides a detailed look at the massive star-forming nebula G035.20-0.74. This Hubble image...