According to a new study in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, an extinct bird known as the dodo (Raphus cucullatus) was in fact relatively...
WR 31a, a rare example of a massive star, is the subject of this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This Hubble image shows WR 31a, a type...
A shape-shifting frog from Ecuador, a giant virus from Siberia, and a bioluminescent shark are among the twenty most bizarre species discovered in the...
Two bright objects in this Hubble Space Telescope image are massive spiral galaxies in the galaxy cluster known as Abell 428, in the constellation of Eridanus,...
Astronomers from Belgium and the Netherlands believe they have discovered the origin of mysterious blue light coming from the hypergiant star HR 5171A.
The...
Astronomers have released an absolutely beautiful photo taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of NGC 3597.
This Hubble image shows the young merging...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a gorgeous photo of the interacting starburst galaxy system NGC 6052.
This image from Hubble shows the...
Ancient Egyptians wrote Calendars of Lucky and Unlucky Days that assigned astronomically influenced prognoses for each day of the year. The best preserved...
A team of scientists from the United States, Argentina, and Brazil has described a new species of small treefrog from the rocky outcrops of the Brazilian...
Australian little penguins are a separate species from those living in New Zealand, a team of ornithologists led by University of Otago scientist Dr Stefanie...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of hornless ceratopsian dinosaur, called Hualianceratops wucaiwanensis, in China.
Life...
An international team of herpetologists, led by Dr R. Alexander Pyron of the George Washington University, has described a new species of fishing snake...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the inner parts of the distant galaxy NGC 7252.
This image shows the central regions...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured four images of a Kuiper belt object called 1994 JR1, also known as Plutino 15810.
This false color image...
A new species of extinct turtle has been named based on a fossil from the Yixian Formation, part of the famous ‘Jehol Biota.’
Reconstruction of Xiaochelys...
Hundreds of footprints left behind by massive herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs have been discovered on the Isle of Skye, Scotland.
An artist’s impression...
This close-up view of Dione was taken by NASA’s Cassini robotic probe during its flyby of this icy moon of Saturn on August 17, 2015.
Dione in front...
NASA scientists, using cameras aboard the agency’s Dawn spacecraft, have created the first detailed mosaics of Ceres’ north and south polar regions.
This...
New observations from the Very Large Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile show how enormous size of dust particles surrounding the hypergiant...
A team of Brazilian arachnologists has described a new species of cave-dwelling harvestman in the genus Iandumoema, bringing the total number of species...
![Visible in this image are galaxies within the galaxy cluster Abell 428: the jet-producing spiral galaxy LEDA 97372 (left) and the spiral galaxy [LOY2001] J031549.8-190623 (right). Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.](https://cdn.sci.news/images/2016/01/image_3585-Abell-428-Spirals-195x110.jpg)
