A sudden flare from a low-mass black hole in the binary system V404 Cygni has offered astrophysicists a unique opportunity to make precise measurements...
New observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) push back the epoch of massive-galaxy formation even further by identifying...
Paleontologists have discovered a new species of carnivorous marsupial lion that lived 26 to 18 million years ago (late Oligocene to early Miocene) in...
On Mars, phyllosilicate (clay) minerals are widespread in terrains that date back to the Noachian period, 4.1 to 3.7 billion years ago. Phyllosilicates...
An international group of astronomers has discovered and measured the distance to the most distant supermassive black hole ever found.
Artist’s conception...
WASP-18b, a hot-Jupiter exoplanet located approximately 325 light-years from Earth, has a stratosphere that’s loaded with carbon monoxide, but has no...
New research by University of Oxford scientists has revealed that bones long venerated as relics of Saint Nicholas, the 4th century Orthodox Christian...
A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has devised a 3D printing technique that uses a novel kind of hydrogel ink made...
An international team of astronomers has found that a little-known exoplanet called K2-18b could be a scaled-up version of Earth, and also discovered the...
After the Moon’s formation, Earth experienced a protracted bombardment by large (over 1,500 km in diameter) planetesimals. Dr. Simone Marchi, a researcher...
Gorillas can spontaneously clean their food before eating it, without first watching another animal to learn from them, an international team of researchers...
Using X-ray data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory and optical data from ground-based telescopes, astronomers have spotted what could be the most...
The production of iron from its ore only started in the 2nd millennium BC, but a number of iron artifacts from the preceding Bronze Age are known to exist....
Vanillin, one of the most widely used flavoring products worldwide, is an effective bioactive compound against psoriatic skin inflammation, according to...
NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft is the only human-made object in interstellar space. The spacecraft, which has been flying for 40 years, relies on small...
An international team of researchers has produced the first high-quality genome sequence for the bottle gourd, also known as calabash, and reconstructed...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has delivered an unrivalled snapshot of a spiral galaxy called LEDA 53183.
This image, taken with the Wide-Field Camera...
