Jun 4, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Neolithic people, not glaciers, moved the Altar Stone — the six-ton central sandstone megalith at Stonehenge — from northeast Scotland to Salisbury...

Jun 1, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using the spectral data from the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have detected methane...

Jun 1, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A newly-released Hubble image shows Messier 88, a black hole-powered spiral galaxy that is gradually plunging toward the crowded heart of the Virgo Cluster. This...

May 27, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new species of bipedal shuvosaurid archosaur from New Mexico, shedding light on a group of creatures that roamed North...

May 27, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

For more than four and a half millennia, the Khufu Pyramid has stood on the Giza plateau, enduring dozens of earthquakes without serious structural damage....

May 25, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists in Canada say they have recovered a dinosaur tail vertebra from 75- to 80-million-year-old marine rocks on a small island off the coast...

May 25, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using spectral data from the Near-Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers analyzed the atmosphere...

May 22, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of pan-shinisaur lizard from a partial upper jaw discovered in southern France, pushing the presence...

May 22, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A stunning new image from the 8.1-m Gemini North telescope, located on the summit of Maunakea in Hawai’i, reveals the Crystal Ball Nebula in unprecedented...

May 19, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of early monofenestratan pterosaur based on a nearly complete and well-preserved fossil skeleton...

May 18, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

NGC 1266 appears frozen between two cosmic identities, offering astronomers a close-up look at how star formation shuts down. This Hubble image reveals...

May 15, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A large tyrannosaurid dinosaur may have stalked the floodplains of what is now New Mexico nearly 74 million years ago, according to a team of paleontologists...

May 14, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of somphospondylan titanosauriform dinosaur — the largest ever found in Southeast Asia —...

May 11, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossils unearthed on a remote Argentine ranch belong to a new genus and species of macronarian sauropod dinosaur, according to an international team of...

May 11, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

New images from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope capture the barred spiral galaxy Messier 77 as a whirlpool of glowing dust, newborn stars and...

May 6, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

Long-overlooked fossils in the Western Australian Museum collection have been identified as a new species of koala. Named Phascolarctos sulcomaxilliaris,...

May 6, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA’s Juno spacecraft captured a new view of the irregular moon Thebe during a May 1 flyby, revealing the battered world from just 5,000 km away. Juno...

May 4, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of massopodan sauropodomorph that lived during the Early Jurassic epoch has been identified from a partial skeleton unearthed in...

May 4, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of astronomers in Japan has detected a thin atmosphere around (612533) 2002 XV93, a trans-Neptunian object about 500 km in diameter — an object...

May 4, 2026 by Enrico de Lazaro

The existence of circumbinary planets — exoplanets that orbit binary stars — has only been firmly established over the past 15 years. Observations...