Located in the center of our Milky Way Galaxy, Sagittarius B2 is an enormous molecular cloud of gas and dust roughly 3 million times the mass of the Sun.
Stars,...
A new member of the megaraptoran dinosaur family has been discovered by a team of paleontologists from Argentina and the United States.
Joaquinraptor casali....
Minerals are the building blocks of rocks, and the types of minerals and their chemistry provide critical information about rock formation and history....
Paleontologists have identified a new species of extinct crocodyliform from the fossilized remains of a juvenile individual found in southwest Montana,...
Ice at minus 10 degrees Celsius releases more iron from common minerals than liquid water at 4 degrees Celsius, according to a team of researchers from...
Hybridization between these species is remarkable across vertebrate species, as such events typically occur between recently diverged populations, whereas...
The newly-discovered supermassive black hole sits in the center of a ‘little red dot’ galaxy called CAPERS-LRD-z9 and is seen just 500 million years...
Paleontologists have screened 24-million-year-old fossil flowers and bees from the Late Oligocene of Enspel, Germany, and identified a new species of linden,...
This water flow occurred on an ancient asteroid more than one billion years after its formation and was probably triggered by an impact that generated...
NGC 2775’s large, yellowish, central bulge is filled with old stars, encircled by tightly wound spiral arms decorated by dark dust and clusters of young,...
Platysomus parvulus, a species of ray-finned fish that lived 310 million years ago, had a unique way of eating never seen in ray-finned fish from that...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA James Webb Space Telescope have detected a series of dark, bead-like and asymmetric star-shaped features in the ionosphere...
A supermassive black hole in the center of the radio quasar RACS J032021.44-352104.1 (RACS J0320-35 for short) is growing at one of the fastest rates ever...
Tektites are nearly pure glasses (practically no crystalline inclusions) created when a space rock slams into Earth, melting surface material and hurling...
The polar vortex is a consequence of Martian seasons, which occur because the planet’s axis is tilted at an angle of 25.2 degrees, according to University...
Paleontologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown pachycephalosaur species in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. The fossil is both...
The ozone layer is healing and the Antarctic ozone hole in 2024 was smaller than in previous years, according to a new report from the World Meteorological...
In new research, archaeologists examined a round heavy metal object from Särdal in the west Swedish region of Halland. Due to its shape and size, it seemed...
New research suggests dinosaurs were ecosystem engineers that promoted habitat openness in the Late Cretaceous epoch, and their extinction around 66 million...
