The small inscribed ivory comb was found at Tel Lachish, a key Canaanite city-state in the 2nd millennium BCE, the second most important city in the Judean...
Astronomers using ESO’s 4.1-m Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy have captured a new view of two bright nebulae: NGC 3603 and NGC 3576.
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WD J2147-4035, an 11-billion-year-old white dwarf located 91 light-years away in the constellation of Grus, is accreting debris from orbiting planetesimals,...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an amazing new photo of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 7038.
This Hubble image shows NGC 7038, a spiral...
Paleontologists from the Nevada Science Center, Idaho State University and Montana State University have described a new genus and species of thescelosaurine...
Rhinos are among the most charismatic and well-known mammals on Earth, but they face extinction because of human activities. To learn how to save rhinos,...
University of Bonn researcher Klaus Wolkenstein has examined the fossilized specimens of the Triassic scallop species Pleuronectites laevigatus with preserved...
Archaeologists from the Austrian Academy of Sciences have uncovered the 1,400-year-old ruins of the business and gastronomy district in Ephesus, an ancient...
Astronomers using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory have discovered two...
Astronomers using the 268-million-pixel OmegaCAM instrument on ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have captured a detailed image of the Vela supernova remnant,...
University of Queensland theoretical physicist Joshua Foo and his colleagues form the University of Queensland, Perimeter Institute and the University...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacular image of two members galaxies of the galactic triplet Arp 248.
This image...
The Webb team has released a high-resolution image of the Pillars of Creation captured by the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) on board the NASA/ESA/CSA...
Paleontologists have described a new species of cyclophorid snail found in a piece of mid-Cretaceous amber excavated from a mine in Myanmar (formerly known...
Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of pteranodontian pterosaur from fossilized bones found in the Republic of Angola.
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This stunning image shows the well-defined arms of the grand design spiral galaxy Messier 99.
This composite image shows Messier 99, a grand design spiral...
New research led by University of Göttingen scientists shows that grass death in fairy circles occurs immediately after rainfall due to plant water stress...
The Hubble science team has released an incredibly beautiful close-up shot of the reflection nebula NGC 1999.
This Hubble image shows NGC 1999, a reflection...
Paleoanthropologists have explored the social organization of Neanderthals using ancient nuclear, Y-chromosomal and mitochondrial DNA data from the remains...
3200 Phaethon, one of the largest potentially hazardous asteroids, rotates once every 3.6 hours, and that rotation period is decreasing by about 4 milliseconds...
