Some species of ornithomimosaurs that lived in what is now Mississippi, the United States, some 85 million years ago were among the world’s largest at...
Though widely thought to be a fluke when seen in earlier measurements, the new, more precise measurement has confirmed the presence of the anomaly and...
Cassiopeia A is a remnant that blew up as a supernova approximately 11,000 years ago.
This composite image shows the supernova remnant Cassiopeia A, a...
3200 Phaethon, one of the largest potentially hazardous asteroids, rotates once every 3.6 hours, and that rotation period is decreasing by about 4 milliseconds...
Paleoanthropologists have analyzed zinc, strontium, carbon, and oxygen isotope and trace element ratios in a fossilized Neanderthal tooth as well as animal...
The dwarf planet Haumea resides in the Kuiper Belt beyond the orbit of the outermost planet Neptune.
An artist’s conception of Haumea, its moons Hi’iaka...
This is the first time such an effect, known as precession, has been seen in black holes, where the twisting is 10 billion times faster than in previous...
Using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based telescopes, astronomers have detected and characterized...
Textbooks and popular science books claim with certainty that women are better at verbal fluency (sometimes also called word fluency) and verbal memory,...
Archaeologists have detected traces of dairy fats on the walls of pottery vessels from the settlements of the Linearbandkeramik culture in Central Europe.
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New research led by China’s Southern Medical University suggests that bumblebees are only able to make use of ordinal ranking memories to guide foraging...
Herbig-Haro objects HH 1 and HH 2 are located 1,250 light-years away in the constellation of Orion.
Two wispy, gaseous clouds occupy the corners of this...
GRB 221009A, a gamma-ray burst detected on October 9, 2022, is one of the nearest and possibly the most-energetic gamma-ray burst ever observed. It occurred...
New videos captured by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA’s Mars Express orbiter show the rare moment of the Martian moon Deimos passing...
A new genus and species of saber-toothed mammalian carnivore has been identified from a fossil found in California, the United States.
An artist’s impression...
GW170817, a titanic collision between two neutron stars detected in August 2017, ejected a structured relativistic jet with a speed greater than 99.97%...
A new modeling study by Leiden University and University of Cambridge scientists predicts the appearance of Homo sapiens and the Protoaurignacian culture...
Paraliparis selti, or the Blue Atacama snailfish, lives in the hadal zone (waters deeper than 6,000 m) of the Atacama Trench in southeast Pacific Ocean.
This...
In the search for life beyond Earth, subsurface bodies of water in the outer Solar System are some of the most important targets. That’s why NASA and...
