A research team led by University of Alberta marine biologists has discovered a new species of sea sponge living off the coast of British Columbia, Canada.
Desmacella...
An international team of herpetologists from Germany and Madagascar has discovered and described three new species of chameleons from the Calumma nasutum...
An international team of astronomers has discovered an unexpected new class of radio-astronomical objects, consisting of a circular disk, which in some...
Astronomers using the SuperWASP-North telescope on La Palma in the Canary Islands, Spain, and the SOPHIE spectrograph at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence,...
Using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and several ground-based telescopes, astronomers have discovered and confirmed a warm super-Neptune...
Astronomers have discovered and validated two small exoplanets orbiting the nearby red dwarf star TOI-1266.
An artist’s impression of the TOI-1266 planetary...
Using data from NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission, the SPECULOOS telescopes and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer (HIRES) on the Keck I telescope at W.M....
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Kepler space telescope have discovered two new planets in the Kepler-160 planetary system. One of the new planets...
An international team of ornithologists has described three new species of the bird genus Scytalopus from the Peruvian Andes.
New Scytalopus species from...
A new genus and species of pterosaur has been identified from a partial fossilized jaw collected on Isle of Wight, southern England.
Wightia declivirostris...
An isotopic analysis of fossil collagen from the bones collected in three Romanian caves indicates that the cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), an extinct species...
An international team of scientists has for the first time mapped the entire genome of the jojoba plant (Simmondsia chinensis).
The jojoba (Simmondsia...
Using three instruments on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), an international team of astronomers has discovered and imaged a giant sub-stellar object...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a close-in super-Earth exoplanet in the HD 164922 planetary system.
An artist’s impression of the...
Museums Victoria arachnologist Joseph Schubert has described seven new species of the peacock spider genus Maratus from Australia.
Maratus azureus. Image...
At least 17 high-inclination Centaurs and two trans-Neptunian objects were captured by the Solar System from the interstellar medium, according to a new...
Astronomers using the CARMENES spectrograph at Calar Alto Observatory in Spain have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting an M-dwarf star in the...
