The newly-identified species — the earliest and most primitive member of the saber-toothed cat genus Amphimachairodus — had craniodental adaptations...
Arguably the most enigmatic of the Maya calendar cycles, the 819-day count has challenged modern scholars for decades. Even today it is not completely...
Over the past 100 million years, mammals have adapted to nearly every environment on Earth. Scientists with the Zoonomia Project have been cataloging the...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of the jellyfish galaxy JO175.
This Hubble image shows JO175, a jellyfish galaxy...
The sled dog Balto has been celebrated in books and movies for his role in delivering desperately needed diphtheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska, in 1925....
V1355 Orionis (also known as HD 291095) is an RS CVn-type binary star system located 400 light-years away in the constellation of Orion.
An artist’s...
The Stone of Destiny is an ancient symbol of Scotland’s monarchy, used for centuries in the inauguration of its kings. Seen as a sacred object, its earliest...
SSN 7 is a so-called contact binary located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy some 210,000 light-years away in the constellation of Tucana....
In new research, scientists from the University of Cambridge and elsewhere reconstructed changes in summer and winter rainfall from trace elements and...
In 2017, astronomers from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) Collaboration captured the first image of a black hole by coordinating radio dishes around...
One of the biggest challenges to growing food on Mars is the presence of perchlorate salts, which have been detected in the Martian regolith (soil) and...
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are microsecond-millisecond flashes of radio waves that are detectable over extragalactic distances; some FRB sources repeat....
Terbium, a chemical element with the symbol Tb and atomic number 65, has never before been seen in an exoplanet atmosphere.
This illustration shows how...
The new specimen represents the first occurrence of an acipenseriform (sturgeon) fish on the continent of Africa.
The European sea sturgeon (Acipenser...
Intermediate-mass black holes in the mass range between 100 and 100,000 solar masses are the missing link between stellar-mass black holes and super massive...
New research shows that Phaethon’s comet-like activity cannot be explained by any kind of dust.
This illustration depicts the asteroid Phaethon being...
The seven galaxies highlighted in this new image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have been confirmed to be at a distance that astronomers...
Mars has a liquid iron alloy core at its center. Using seismic data gathered by NASA’s InSight lander, planetary scientists have made the first observations...
