The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured the brilliance of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 3568.
This Hubble image shows NGC 3568, a barred spiral...
A team of researchers from the American Museum of Natural History, Siena College and the Bell Museum at the University of Minnesota, St. Paul, has discovered...
About 66 million years ago, a 10-km-wide asteroid crashed into Earth near the site of the small town of Chicxulub in what is now Mexico. The impact unleashed...
Astronomers have uncovered evidence that Sagittarius A*, the 4-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, is not a sleeping monster...
Non-avian dinosaurs may have had bright color on their skin, scales and beaks in a manner similar to modern birds, according to a paper published in the...
Bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) are blood-sucking insects that live in close proximity to humans. They have proliferated globally and have become one of the...
The ancient leather armor, datable to 786-543 BCE, was originally made of about 5,444 smaller scales and 140 larger scales, which, together with leather...
Named b Centauri (AB)b (or b Centauri b), the newfound exoplanet is estimated to be only 15 million years old and 10 times the mass of Jupiter, according...
Using correlative neutron and X-ray tomography, paleontologists have examined an exceptionally preserved specimen of Sigaloceras enodatum — a species...
Astronomers using the Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) on Gemini South telescope have imaged the Chamaeleon Infrared Nebula, which is located near...
A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an almost complete skeleton found in Chilean Patagonia.
An artist’s reconstruction of...
Astronomers using NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have captured unprecedented high-fidelity radio images of a jet of material propelled from the...
With a 11-12-m wingspan (37-40 feet), Quetzalcoatlus is the largest flying organism ever known and one of the most familiar pterosaurs to the public. Its...
New research suggests that caffeine intake (i.e., a capsule containing 4 mg/kg) has an ergogenic effect on dynamic visual acuity (DVA) — the ability...
A team of ornithologists from Brazil and Finland has discovered a cryptic new species of flatbill flycatcher living in the Amazonian lowlands.
The olivaceous...
Liel Krutokop, an 11-year-old girl from Petah Tikva, has found a silver shekel from the Second Temple period on the ‘Pilgrimage Road’ in the City of...
Astronomers from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States have found no trace of dark matter in AGC 114905, a gas-rich ultra-diffuse galaxy...
Migratory birds undertake long and challenging journeys that have selected for a suite of adaptations. Several recent studies revealed that migrating individuals...
The upper Miocene to lower Pliocene fossil from Beaumaris in Victoria, south-eastern Australia, completely rewrites the evolution of pig-nosed turtles.
An...
Beta Crucis is represented in the flags of Australia, Brazil, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Samoa.
Beta Crucis. Image credit: Naskies at en.wikipedia...
