Jul 23, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals a detailed view of part of NGC 6744, one of the most Milky Way-like spiral galaxies...

Jul 17, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists led by a University of Queensland biologist has discovered a new species of bandy-bandy snake on the west coast of the Cape York Peninsula...

Jul 13, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of scientists at the University of Basel, Switzerland, has discovered that a 1,800-year-old papyrus from the Basel Papyrus Collection is an ancient...

Jul 11, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of Argentinian paleontologists has rewritten the paleontology textbooks by finding that giant, long-necked, herbivorous dinosaurs known as sauropods...

Jul 11, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of researchers from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, CIBERDEM and the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre has demonstrated that a single...

Jul 9, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of a little known galaxy called UGC 12682. This Hubble image shows the irregular galaxy UGC 12682....

Jul 6, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Diet may affect individuals’ risks related to the development and progression of age-related macular degeneration, a progressive chronic disease of the...

Jul 6, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

In a study published June 25 in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, an international team of researchers reports lesions observed on two fallow...

Jun 29, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of paleontologists has identified two new species of ancient mammals that lived about 13 million years ago (middle Miocene epoch)...

Jun 11, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures that can be found in the Universe. A remarkable new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope...

May 30, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Evening use of light-emitting electronic devices such as tablet computers can induce delays in desired bedtimes, suppress secretion of the sleep-promoting...

May 25, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have detected six dark galaxies,...

May 24, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A group of astronomers at the University of Toronto in Canada has performed one of the highest resolution observations in the history of astronomy by observing...

May 23, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of researchers led by Dr. Jean-Lou Justine of the Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris, has identified at least five species...

May 17, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A research team led by Case Western Reserve University astronomers has found a never-before seen cloud of ionized gas associated with the Whirlpool Galaxy,...

May 16, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A supermassive black hole in the center of the ultra-luminous quasar SMSS J215728.21-360215.1 (J2157-3602 for short) devours a mass equivalent to our Sun...

May 14, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have discovered a fossil of a 180-million-year-old crocodyliform that they say is a long-sought missing link in the evolution of some ancient...

May 14, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows NGC 1032, a spiral galaxy seen almost edge-on. NGC 1032. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble. NGC...

May 7, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Galaxy clusters are some of the most massive structures that can be found in the Universe — giant groupings of galaxies bound together by gravity....

May 3, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of entomologists from the Netherlands and Philippines has discovered three new species of aquatic beetles in the remote Maliau Basin, Malaysian...