The destructive power of an impacting asteroid is primarily estimated by knowledge of its size. The near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 reached a peak 2032 impact...
Paleontologists in Germany have unearthed an exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of an Early-Jurassic plesiosauroid species called Plesiopterys wildi.
The...
The Sample Analysis at Mars instrument onboard NASA’s Curiosity rover has detected decane, undecane, and dodecane molecules in a sample from Gale crater.
This...
Paleontologists have discovered and described a new ctenochasmatid pterosaurian mandible from the Late Jurassic Portland Limestone Formation of southern...
Astronomers using the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured coronagraphic images of the HR 8799...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of obruchevodid petalodont (petal-toothed) shark from multiple teeth unearthed at Mammoth Cave...
A cryptic new species of the honeyeater genus Myzomela has been described by an international team of ornithologists from Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom...
Paleontologists have studied and described three previously unknown dinosaur track-bearing surfaces from a locality near Biloela in Queensland, Australia.
Dinosaur...
The superb lyrebird (Menura novaehollandiae), a ground-dwelling species of moist eucalypt forests in south-eastern Australia, engineers micro-habitats...
Entomologists have described a new species of tiger swallowtail (genus Papilio) from eastern North America.
Papilio solstitius: (a) male, holotype and...
New research demonstrates a potential protective role of citrus fruit on the incidence of depression and suggests that Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, a...
As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium. These encounters can...
Scientists have produced the first chromosome-scale genome assembly of the white oak (Quercus alba), an abundant forest tree species across eastern North...
Meet Xingxiulong yueorum, a new species of early-diverging sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived in what is now China during the Early Jurassic epoch.
The...
A giant elliptical galaxy called NGC 3640 has engulfed several smaller galaxies in the past, according to an analysis of data from ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope...
Paleontologists from the American University in Cairo and elsewhere say they have found an almost complete skull of the hyaenodont Bastetodon syrtos in...
Paleontologists have described a new specimen of the genus Archaeopteryx from the Mörnsheim Formation in the Franconian Alb of Bavaria, Germany.
The Karlsruhe...
Named SNR J0614-7251 and SNR J0624-6948, the newly-discovered supernova remnants reside in the outskirts of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the largest satellite...
