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...
Ornithologists from South Korea and Poland have shown for the first time that Antarctic brown skuas (Stercorarius antarcticus), a species that typically...
An international team of scientists, led by Dr. Brooke Flammang from New Jersey Institute of Technology, has identified unique anatomical features in a...
Scientists led by Dr. Marcelo Andrade of the Universidade Federal do Para report that they have discovered a new species of omnivorous freshwater fish...
According to a study led by University College London researcher William Dunn, the solar wind is causing intense X-ray bursts over Jupiter’s polar regions.
Solar...
Japanese tits combine their calls using specific rules to communicate important compound messages, says an international group of ornithologists led by...
A team of marine scientists working off the northeast coast of Necker Island, the Hawaiian Archipelago, has encountered a new-to-science species of deep-sea...
Neanderthals living in what is now France may have used powdered manganese dioxide for fire making purposes, according to a new study published in the...
An international group of scientists has successfully sequenced the whole mitochondrial genome of the ancient glyptodont – a heavily armored herbivorous...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, scientists have discovered that a giant extrasolar planet called 2MASSWJ 1207334-393254b has patchy clouds and...
