An international team of scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope’s Imaging Spectrograph has for the first time determined the true color of an extrasolar...
Biologists reporting in the open-access journal Zookeys have identified a diminutive new catfish species in the waters of Rio Rio Paraíba do Sul basin,...
According to a new study conducted by marine biologists Dr Anders Garm from the University of Copenhagen and Dr Dan-Erik Nilsson from Lund University,...
British-Australian team of scientists has revealed the past position of the Australian, Antarctic and Indian tectonic plates at 165 million years ago,...
New research, reported in the open-access journal PloS ONE, has yielded a surprising result: an Indonesian species of parrot known as Goffin’s Cockatoo,...
An international team of scientists has detected mysterious bursts of radio waves originating from cosmological distances when the Universe was just half...
Marine biologists from Taiwan and New Zealand have identified four new species of deep-sea fish in the anglerfish genus Chaunax.
The Yellowspot frogmouth,...
An international group of astronomers reporting in the journal Nature has discovered two extrasolar planets circling Sun-like stars in the open star cluster...
A multinational team of ornithologists has discovered a new bird species in Phnom Penh, the capital and largest city of Cambodia.
Cambodian Tailorbird...
Scientists led by Dr Thomas Gilbert from the University of Copenhagen have used DNA from a museum specimen collected in 1955 to study what may be a distinct...
Astronomers using the Wide Field Camera 3 aboard NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new image of two interacting galaxies collectively...
European paleontologists have described a new species of spiny shark that lived about 408 million years ago during the Devonian period.
Machaeracanthus...
Multi-band observations of NGC 3766, an open star cluster located about 5,500 light-years away in the constellation Centaurus, have yielded the discovery...
African starlings, a diverse group of primarily brightly colored birds known for their metallic sheens, change color about ten times faster than their...
According to the findings of a study published online in the Astrophysical Journal, a dwarf galaxy named Segue 2 is the least massive galaxy in the known...
Australian biologists have found that male superb lyrebirds (Menura novaehollandiae) coordinate song with dance as part of an elaborate mating ritual.
Superb...
Scientists from the United States and Japan have discovered unusual spindle-shaped organic microfossils in 3 billion-year-old rocks from the Pilbara Craton...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a well-preserved skeleton of a new tiny, tree-dwelling primate named Archicebus achilles that lived...
Prof Patrice Rey from the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney has described for the first time the dramatic geological events that created...
