A team of scientists from James Cook University and Curtin University, both in Australia, has rediscovered two Australian endemic sea snake species, leaf-scaled...
A team of entomologists has captured Australian blue-banded bees’ unique approach to pollination – headbanging flowers up to 350 times a second.
The...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of the globular cluster Terzan 1.
This image from Hubble’s Wide Field and Planetary...
A new species of armored dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered more than two decades ago in Australia.
An artist impression of Kunbarrasaurus...
JAXA’s Akatsuki spacecraft successfully entered Venus’ orbit on Monday, December 7, where it now will prepare to study the planet’s atmosphere.
This...
Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new mosasaur that lived 72 million years ago in Japan.
Life restoration of Phosphorosaurus...
HD 106906b, a giant exoplanet discovered last year sitting at a large distance from its parent star, may have been kicked out of its birthplace in a process...
An international team of entomologists has described two new species of satyrid butterflies from the lowland tropical forests of the upper Amazon basin,...
A team of paleontologists has found 8 fossil peach endocarps, or pits, in the late Pliocene Ciying Formation in Kunming, China, whose morphological characters...
Planetary scientists using data from NASA’s Cassini orbiter have found direct evidence for ‘explosions’ in the magnetosphere of the gas giant Saturn.
Photomontage...
According to a large multinational team of scientists led by University of New England researcher Dr Romina Rader, non-bee insects – flies, beetles,...
A team of genetic researchers, led by Dr Jose de Vega of the Genome Analysis Center and Aberystwyth University, UK, has successfully sequenced the genome...
A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the dusty structure encircling the center of a distant galaxy known as NGC 2768.
This Hubble...
A group of scientists, led by Dr Sjoert van Velzen of Johns Hopkins University, has observed a new way for plasma to escape the gravitational pull of a...
New observations of an unusual star called KIC 8462852 by NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope suggest that its strange light signals are likely from extrasolar...
