New gamma-ray observations from NASA’s Fermi Space Telescope suggest ultra-magnetic neutron stars called magnetars could be fueling superluminous supernovae,...
New simulations suggest a violent collision 11 billion years ago reshaped our Galaxy and triggered a burst of star formation.
This image from the Gemini...
Paleontologists from University College London and the University of Cambridge say the large predatory dinosaurs’ tiny arms evolved alongside massive...
Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early monofenestratan pterosaur based on a nearly complete and well-preserved fossil skeleton...
An analysis of 27 animal studies found that switching to a healthier diet improved memory performance, though the effects were far weaker after diets high...
When an antenna of the house cricket (Acheta domesticus) is touched with a heated probe, something curious happens: the insect turns its attention to the...
New research led by planetary scientists from Southwest Research Institute and KTH Royal Institute of Technology suggests that evidence for vapor erupting...
Grape consumption may improve the skin’s barrier against environmental damage by rewriting gene activity, according to new research led by Western New...
NGC 1266 appears frozen between two cosmic identities, offering astronomers a close-up look at how star formation shuts down.
This Hubble image reveals...
A large tyrannosaurid dinosaur may have stalked the floodplains of what is now New Mexico nearly 74 million years ago, according to a team of paleontologists...
For the first time, astronomers have directly detected how turbulent clouds of ionized gas between the stars bend and blur radio signal from a distant...
Scientists have extracted and analyzed proteins from the tooth enamel of six Homo erectus individuals who lived in China roughly 400,000 years ago, offering...
A large genetic survey reveals that the country’s so-called ‘wild dogs’ remain predominantly dingo, reshaping debates over conservation and wildlife...