A 210,000-year-old partial skull found in southern Greece about four decades ago has been identified as the earliest example of anatomically modern Homo...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the spiral galaxy NGC 972.
This Hubble image shows a spiral galaxy called NGC...
A giant ostrich-like bird that lived about two million years ago (Pleistocene epoch) has been identified from a fossilized femur found in the Crimean Peninsula,...
An international research team led by Northeastern University marine biologists has discovered a new genus and species of shipworm burrowing into the bedrock...
Astronomers using the CARMENES (Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs) instrument...
Although NASA’s Cassini mission ended in 2017, science continues to flow from the data collected. In a series of papers in the journal Science, planetary...
Researchers have published the first-ever complete sequences of two genes that allow spiders to produce glue, a modified version of silk that keeps a spider’s...
A slab of grayish limestone shale from the Eocene Green River Formation, the United States, caught a school of Erismatopterus levatus, an extinct species...
An international team of scientists has described a cryptic new species of rat snake in the genus Elaphe.
The Urartian rat snake (Elaphe urartica) in Armenia....
Two new species of predatory megaraptoran dinosaurs have been identified from fossils found in Thailand.
Phuwiangvenator yaemniyomi (left) and Vayuraptor...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered 1,000- to 900-million-year-old microfossils of a fungus in estuarine shale of the Grassy Bay Formation...
An international team of scientists from Cornell University and the University of Zurich has discovered a new jumping gene that makes bacteria resistant...
A previously unknown species of bird-like dinosaur with pterosaur-like wings has been discovered by a team of paleontologists working with the Institute...
A new species of predatory tyrannosauroid dinosaur that lived about 92 million years ago (Cretaceous period) has been identified from fossils found in...
A spectacular new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows SPT-CL J0615-5746, a very massive group of galaxies located approximately 7.7 billion...
In 1980, a Buddhist monk found the right half a fossilized hominin jawbone in Baishiya Karst Cave on the Tibetan Plateau, Xiahe, China. An analysis of...
A nova is a cataclysmic event on the surface of a white dwarf star in a binary stellar system that increases the overall brightness by several orders of...
Between 2014 and 2016, the OSIRIS (Optical, Spectroscopic, and Infrared Remote Imaging System) camera onboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft captured almost...
In two new species of giant stick insects from the dry forests of Madagascar, males turn blue or multicolored at sexual maturity.
Achrioptera manga, an...
A new species of mastodon that lived during the Pleistocene period has been identified from fossil found in California and Idaho.
The Pacific mastodon...
