Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the High Resolution Echelle Spectrometer on the Keck I telescope at the W. M. Keck...
NGTS-14Ab, an alien world slightly larger than Neptune orbiting around an orange dwarf in the binary system NGTS-14, joins a growing number of exoplanets...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have detected and studied numerous young star clusters in six merging galaxy systems.
Adamo et al....
Marine biologists from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History have described a new species of...
Astronomers using data from the HATNet (Hungarian-made Automated Telescope Network) survey have discovered a transiting giant planet orbiting the K5-type...
Zoologists believe they have found a previously unknown species of tree hyrax in the Taita Hills, Kenya.
A female tree hyrax in Ngangao Forest, Taita Hills,...
Dr. Johan Hermans, a botanist specializing in orchids and an honorary research associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has discovered a new species...
Astronomers using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have discovered two exoplanets transiting inactive red dwarf stars TOI-122...
In a new study published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters, astronomers investigated the effects the activity of the red dwarf star Proxima Centauri...
A team of researchers from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the Smithsonian Institution has discovered a dense layer of biogenic high-magnesium...
Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations...
The greater glider (Petauroides volans), a large, nocturnal gliding marsupial endemic to Australia, isn’t one species, but rather three distinct ones.
Petauroides...
A team of researchers in Europe has identified a new high-pressure mineral in a lunar meteorite called Oued Awlitis 001.
Fragments of Oued Awlitis 001....
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope Interferometer have captured the first direct images of the recently-discovered giant planet Beta Pictoris...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a hot terrestrial planet orbiting the rapidly-rotating low-mass star TOI-540.
An artist’s impression...
Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have detected an extragalactic candidate planet circling a binary system in Messier 51 (also known...
Using new radar data from ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, researchers have detected three reservoirs of liquid water trapped below the south polar cap...
A young starburst galaxy named BOSS-EUVLG1 is by far the most luminous, almost un-obscured star-forming galaxy known at any redshift.
An artist’s impression...
A team of scientists from Europe has sequenced and analyzed the nearly complete genome of the wels catfish (Silurus glanis), one of the largest freshwater...
Astronomers have discovered two planets orbiting a bright dwarf star in the binary stellar system Gliese 414.
An artist’s impression of the Gliese 414...
