A team of researchers from Durham University, the University of Oxford, and the exploration company Helium One has discovered a world-class helium gas...
A team of astronomers detected a dark spot in the atmosphere of Neptune, in images taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope on May 16, 2016. This...
Wild boars (Sus scrofa) and warthogs (Phacochoerus africanus) have an internal magnetic compass that helps them orient themselves as they forage for food...
An international team of astronomers has spotted a Neptune-sized exoplanet orbiting a very young star approximately 500 light-years from our own Solar...
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image shows NGC 1854, a globular star cluster in the southern constellation of Dorado.
This image shows NGC 1854,...
According to astronomers at NASA’s Center for Near-Earth Object (NEO) Studies, a near-Earth asteroid designated 2016 HO3 is currently following a stable...
ESA’s ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) has snapped its first photo of the Red Planet.
ExoMars acquired its first image of Mars on June 13. The line-of-sight...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/Submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected gas-phase methanol (methyl alcohol) in the protoplanetary disc...
Astronomers using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have found a Jupiter-like exoplanet orbiting around a pair of Sun-like stars.
Comparison of the relative...
A new species of the genus Pristimantis (rain frogs) has been discovered in southeastern Peru by an international team of scientists.
Pristimantis pluvialis,...
A group of astronomers led by Dr. Ximena Fernandez from Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, has pushed the limits of radio astronomy to detect...
Sharks of the same species can have different personalities, indicates a new study published in the Journal of Fish Biology.
Port Jackson shark (Heterodontus...
An international team of archaeologists working in Bruniquel Cave in France has identified mysterious ring-like constructions that were built by early...
A new species of ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered a decade ago in the Judith River Formation in Montana.
An artist’s...
This new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope is likely the best of the grand-design spiral galaxy NGC 6814.
This Hubble image shows NGC 6814,...
According to a team of scientists led by Prof. Sara Seager from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, gases emitted by alien life forms on habitable...
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège has discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets around a nearby ultracool dwarf...
