An international team of astronomers has found compelling evidence for two low-mass planets orbiting the nearby star Fomalhaut, just 25 light years from...
NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has taken a picture of the spiral galaxy NGC 4980, located around 80 million light years away in the constellation of Hydra.
Spiral...
A team of researchers has found that people who received frequent dental X-rays in the past have an increased risk of developing meningioma, the most commonly...
A team of scientists has established a clear cause-and-effect relationship between rising levels of carbon dioxide and global warming that ended the last...
Scientists using observations from two ESA’s spacecrafts have created a multi-wavelength view of cataclysmic events taking place within the giant galaxy...
An international team of scientists has found the earliest known evidence of the use of fire by human ancestors at the site of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern...
An international team of Ethiopian and American scientists conducting paleontological field research in the Woranso-Mille area of the Afar region of Ethiopia...
A team of researchers led by Dr. Susan Rule of the Australian National University has found that human arrival rather than climate change caused the extinction...
On March 17, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft completed its primary mission, orbiting Mercury, capturing nearly 100,000 images, and recording data that shed...
A team of scientists from Monash University and the University of Bristol has found that the tiny teeth of a long-extinct prehistoric fish are the sharpest...
A team of paleontologists has identified two new species of horned dinosaurs, known from fossils found in Alberta, Canada.
Unescoceratops koppelhusae (upper...
A team of scientists led by researchers from the University of Florida and University of Nebraska has discovered a correlation between environmental temperature...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a tropical forest preserved in ash when a volcano erupted 300 million years ago in what is today...
Researchers at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), UK, have produced technology capable of accurate measurements of Planck’s constant, the final...
The ESA-NASA Planck spacecraft has returned new remarkable images showing previously undiscovered islands of star formation and a mysterious haze of microwave...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered fossil organisms, which they believe are the first animals that lived on Earth.
Fossilized Otavia...
ESA’s Mars Express has revealed a strong evidence of an ocean once covering the northern part of Mars.
Ancient northern ocean on Mars (ESA / C. Carreau)
Using...
A team of paleontologists has identified a new species of prehistoric crocodile, nicknamed ‘Shieldcroc’ due to a thick-skinned shield on its head.
A...
