Amorphous organic residue from a large storage jar found at the Early Bronze Age settlement of Castelluccio in Sicily, Italy, suggests olive oil was being...
Dark chocolate consumption improves the ability to see low- and high-contrast targets, possibly owing to increased blood flow, suggests a small new study...
Opening windows and doors before going to bed can reduce carbon dioxide levels in bedrooms and improve sleep quality, according to new research from the...
Astronomers using data from the NASA Kepler spacecraft’s reborn K2 mission have discovered a planetary system containing at least three exoplanets, orbiting...
On September 6, 2017, an active region on the Sun released two X-class solar flares, captured here by NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).
An X9.3-class...
An international team of paleontologists has identified from an almost complete skeleton found in China a massive oviraptorid dinosaur with a toothless...
Using an adaptive optics system and coronagraphic facility at ESO’s Very Large Telescope, an international team of astronomers has discovered and directly...
Astronomers have used the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) to observe the nearby supergiant star Betelgeuse. Beyond just delivering...
Professional and citizen astronomers with the NASA-funded ‘Backyard Worlds: Planet 9’ project have made their first significant discovery: a new brown...
Astronomers have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet orbiting the red dwarf star Gliese 625.
This artist’s concept depicts a super-Earth-size exoplanet....
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this stunning image of the spiral galaxy NGC 5917.
This image snapped by Hubble’s WFC3 camera shows...
Astronomers have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet in the habitable zone of LHS 1140, a small, cool star in the constellation of Cetus, approximately...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a super-Earth planet in orbit around Gliese 536, a red dwarf star approximately 33 light-years away.
An...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a giant extrasolar planet orbiting a young star called CVSO 30. Not only have the scientists detected...
An international team of astronomers from the United States and Chile has detected three giant planets in the HD 133131 system, a pair of stellar ‘twins’...
NASA has shared a stunning new image of Rhea, the second largest moon of the gas giant Saturn.
Water ice on Rhea’s surface makes it bright in full sunlight....
A team of astronomers has reported a huge haul of new exoplanets discovered and confirmed using data from the first year of the Kepler/K2 mission. Among...
An international team of scientists has identified a second gravitational wave event in the data from the twin detectors of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave...
