A new genus and species of vampyropod cephalopod — named Syllipsimopodi bideni after President Joseph Biden — has been identified from an exceptionally...
ESO’s New Technology Telescope has captured a striking photo of SN 2021afdx, a Type II supernova that occurred in the Cartwheel Galaxy.
This image, captured...
NASA has released an a beautiful new photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of an Herbig-Haro object called HH 34.
This Hubble image shows...
Bashanosaurus primitivus is the earliest record of Stegosauria in Asia and represents one of the earliest records of this dinosaur group from anywhere...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of tuatara-like sphenodontian reptile from dozens of fossilized specimens found in Arizona, the United States.
Holotype...
The Mars Hand Lens Imager on NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has imaged a flower-like rock artifact in the Gale crater on Mars.
This image from the MAHLI...
Scientists have described a new species of the Neotropical orchid genus Maxillaria from cloud rainforests of northern Ecuador.
Maxillaria anacatalinaportillae....
Using the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) on the Víctor M. Blanco 4-m Telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, astronomers have captured...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of a pair of overlapping galaxies called NGC 4496.
This...
Dearc sgiathanach had an estimated wingspan of between 1.9 and 3.8 m (6.2-12.5 feet), roughly the size of the largest flying birds today (e.g., wandering...
A new genus and species of abelisaurid theropod has been identified from a partially complete skull found in northwestern Argentina.
An artist’s reconstruction...
A team of scientists from Australia, Italy, Poland and Switzerland has examined the association between meat intake and life expectancy at a population...
A new genus and species of dinosaur being named Iberospinus natarioi has been discovered by Dr. Octávio Mateus and Dr. Darío Estraviz-López from Portugal’s...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of Arp 298, a pair of interacting galaxies in the constellation...
Woodwardopterus freemanorum was over 1 m (3.3 feet) in length and lived some 252 million years ago (Late Permian epoch) in a freshwater environment.
Life...
A new image from the JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft shows a large crater on Ganymede, the Jupiter’s largest moon.
This image of Ganymede...
An international team of paleontologists from Australia, Canada and Italy has documented more than 100 footprints of hadrosaurid and tyrannosaurid dinosaurs...
Since the discovery of neutrino oscillations, physicists know that neutrinos have non-zero mass. However, the absolute neutrino-mass scale remains unknown....
The Hubble team has released an incredibly beautiful shot of IC 2431, a distant trio of merging galaxies located in the constellation of Cancer.
This composite...
Each of the two newly-discovered protoclusters, MAGAZ3NE J095924+022537 and MAGAZ3NE J100028+023349 (MAGAZ3NE J0959 and MAGAZ3NE J1000 for short), hosts...
