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...
This new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows the beautiful and elegant galaxy NGC 4111.
NGC 4111. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy...
In celebration of the 26th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured an amazing image of the Bubble Nebula...
An international team of researchers, led by Dr. Gunther Korschinek from the Technical University of Munich, has detected radioactive iron-60 in samples...
Three new species of the genus Microcebus (mouse lemurs) have been discovered by an international team of scientists from the German Primate Center, the...
Theoretical physicist Prof. Stephen Hawking and science philanthropist Yuri Milner unveiled this week a new initiative, called Breakthrough Starshot, to...
An international team of astronomers has discovered one of the youngest and brightest free-floating, planet-like objects within relatively close proximity...
NASA has released a beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of an irregular dwarf galaxy known as Leo A.
This image from the NASA/ESA...
Neanderthal Y-chromosome genes disappeared from the genome of modern humans long ago, suggests a new study published this week in the American Journal...
A team of astronomers led by Dr. Souza Oliveira Kepler from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is reporting the discovery of a white...
