The microbial community composition on the International Space Station (ISS) is more similar to home surfaces than to the human microbiome samples, according...
A new species of seahorse has been discovered in the northern Pacific Ocean, near Japan and the Korean Peninsula.
Coloration of fresh specimens: Hippocampus...
Astronomers have spotted a new type of extremely energetic cosmic explosion they think originates from a very massive star or the environment of a supermassive...
A rocky exoplanet roughly the same size as Earth has been discovered orbiting a nearby low-mass star, thanks to new data gathered by ESO’s High Accuracy...
An international team of researchers has identified a new species of orangutan living on the Indonesian island of Sumatra. Named the Tapanuli orangutan...
A new species of rhabdodontid dinosaur, named Matheronodon provincialis, has been discovered in southern France.
Artist’s impression of Matheronodon...
A new species of manakin, called Machaeropterus eckelberryi, has been discovered in the foothills of southwestern Loreto and northern San Martín departments,...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a rocky exoplanet with an orbital period of 8.9 hours.
EPIC 228732031b orbits so close to its parent...
An international research team led by astronomers from the Institute of Astrophysics of Andalusia (IAA-CSIC) in Spain has discovered a ring around Haumea,...
An international team of paleontologists from the United States, Australia and Tanzania has discovered a new species of hyaenodont that lived 25 million...
Dr. Manuel Perger, a postdoctoral researcher at Spain’s Institute of Space Sciences (IEEC-CSIC), and colleagues have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet...
Paleontologists have found fossil fragments from a new species of ornithomimosaur (ostrich-mimic dinosaur) that walked the Earth between 84 and 72 million...
Herpetologists are claiming they have discovered a new species of purple frog living in the Western Ghats, India.
The Bhupathy’s purple frog (Nasikabatrachus...
The Subaru Telescope, the 8.2-m flagship telescope of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, located at the Mauna Kea Observatory on Hawaii, has...
An international team of researchers from the Kiepenheuer Institute for Solar Physics and the University of Texas at Arlington has spotted signs of an...
A multinational group of astronomers and astrophysicists has discovered a hot-Jupiter orbiting a rapidly rotating star 1,243 light-years from Earth.
A...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of the hockey stick-shaped galaxy NGC 4656.
This image from Hubble shows the spiral...
NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the irregular/spiral galaxy NGC 4248.
This image, taken with the Wide...
An international team of astronomers, led by the University of Cambridge, has announced the discovery of a low-mass star, called EBLM J0555-57Ab, roughly...
An international team of geologists led by Monash University Professor Joël Brugger has discovered a new thallium mineral — nataliyamalikite.
Nataliyamalikite...
