Paleontologists have identified two new species of palaeotheriid mammals from fossils found at the Eocene site of Zambrana in Alava, Spain.
Palaeotheriid...
Archaeologists have uncovered a 51,000-year-old engraved giant deer phalanx in a cave in the Harz Mountains, Germany. The find, which came from an apparent...
Palomar 5 is one of the sparsest star clusters in the halo of our Milky Way Galaxy and is best known for its spectacular tidal tails, spanning over 20...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking photo of part of the Perseus cluster, a collection of thousands of galaxies approximately 240...
The genomes of multiple East Asian populations bear the signature of a viral epidemic that occurred approximately 900 generations, or 25,000 years (28...
Paleontologists have described a new enantiornithine bird with a well-preserved skull from the Early Cretaceous of northeastern China.
The Early Cretaceous...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured a striking new photo of NGC 330, an open star cluster that resides in the Small Magellanic...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured an amazing new photo of the interacting galaxy system IC 1623.
This Hubble image shows...
A new species of the giant rhinoceros genus Paraceratherium has been identified from the fossilized remains found in Gansu Province, northwestern China.
Life...
In a new study, astronomers used data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope to calculate a more accurate distance to an ultra-diffuse galaxy called...
The two ancient obsidian flakes recovered from a now submerged archaeological site beneath Lake Huron represent the oldest and farthest east confirmed...
A new genus and species of large-sized tomistomine crocodylian has been identified from a large, incomplete skull found more than a century ago in Queensland,...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have taken a detailed image of a spectacular part of the spiral galaxy NGC 3254.
This Hubble image...
A young open cluster called NGC 2516 has a classical tidal radius of 10 parsecs (33 light-years) and a halo of stars spanning at least 500 parsecs (1,600...
The newly-discovered species of titanosaurian sauropod dinosaur, named Australotitan cooperensis, is the largest species of dinosaur ever found in Australia.
Life...
ESO has released a beautiful photo taken by the FOcal Reducer and low dispersion Spectrograph 2 (FORS2) on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) of the spiral...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced an outstanding image of the beautiful spiral galaxy NGC 4680.
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy...
Paleontologists have identified a new species of lambeosaurine hadrosaur from fossils found in northern Mexico.
Life reconstruction of Tlatolophus galorum....
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured an absolutely beautiful photo of a spiral galaxy called NGC 691.
This Hubble image shows the spiral galaxy...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shot this image of a spiral galaxy called NGC 2276.
This Hubble image shows the trailing arms of the spiral galaxy...