A new hummingbird species, called the dry-forest sabrewing, has been discovered in the tropical forests of eastern Brazil.
A young male of the dry-forest...
A new species of parrot has been discovered in the tropical forests of the Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico.
Male (right) and female paratypes of the blue-winged...
Several human studies on consumption of mango (Mangifera indica) have found multiple health benefits associated with the fruit including improved blood...
A new study from Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School researchers has found that frequent fish consumption is associated with lower...
A critically endangered bird species called the São Tomé grosbeak is the world’s largest canary, 50% heavier than the next largest species, according...
Dr. Jessie Christiansen, a staff scientist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute, and colleagues have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet orbiting...
Gondwanagaricites magnificus represents the oldest fossil mushroom to date and the first fossil mushroom from the ancient supercontinent Gondwana.
The...
Astronomers have used the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to track the two components of Luhman 16AB, the third closest system to the Solar System.
This...
Herpetologists are claiming they have discovered a new species of frog living in the Amazonian lowlands of Ecuador.
The Yaku glassfrog (Hyalinobatrachium...
NASA’s Juno spacecraft successfully made its sixth close flyby of Jupiter on Friday, May 19, 2017, at 2 a.m. EDT (6 a.m. UTC; 11 p.m. PDT on May 18).
Juno...
There are three different subspecies of the snow leopard (Panthera uncia), the world’s most elusive large big cat, according to a new study published...
Using a planet-hunting technique called gravitational microlensing, astronomers have detected an Earth-mass planet orbiting an ultracool dwarf 12,750 light-years...
Using NASA’s Goldstone Solar System Radar in Mojave Desert, California, astronomers have captured radar images of the rotating, two-lobed asteroid 2014...
A group of paleontologists from the University of Queensland and James Cook University has documented the most diverse assemblage of dinosaur tracks in...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the galaxy NGC 4424, which is found in the constellation of Virgo.
In this Hubble image the...
An international team of paleontologists from the Nordic Center for Earth Evolution and the Swedish Museum of Natural History has unearthed uniquely well-preserved...
This image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed view of part of the disc of NGC 1448, one of the nearest luminous galaxies...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of Westerlund 1, a young super star cluster.
This image, taken with Hubble’s Wide Field...
