The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the cometary dwarf galaxy NGC 4861.
This Hubble image shows the cometary dwarf...
New evidence indicates the primary cause of megafaunal extinction in Australia 45,000 years ago was likely a result of humans, not climate change. A paper...
An international team of physicists led by RIKEN researcher Stefan Ulmer has found that the magnetic moment of the antiproton is extremely close to that...
A new image from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft shows Saturn’s small moon Daphnis and the waves it raises in the surrounding ring material.
This image was...
A duo of researchers from the United States and Australia has used an imaging technique to reconstruct the brain architecture and neural networks of the...
A grid of small polygons spotted by NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover may have originated as cracks in drying mud more than 3 billion years ago, according...
According to a new study published this week in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, a phenomenon called ram-pressure stripping is more...
The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) telescope has been used to study the Sun for the first time. The new ALMA images reveal otherwise...
An international team of researchers led by University of California, Davis, geneticists has publicly released the first public genome sequence of Arabica...
NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission has identified two gas-enshrouded supermassive black holes, located at the centers of nearby...
A process using human stem cells can generate heart cells belonging to the external layer, the epicardium, according to an international team of scientists...
Humans first arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier than previously thought, according to an analysis of ancient animal bones found in northern...
This colorful view of Milky Way was captured when the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope pointed its Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) towards the constellation...
At the 229th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society on Jan. 5, 2017, astronomers from the SDSS/APOGEE (Sloan Digital Sky Survey/Apache Point Observatory...
Archaeologists from Oxford Archaeology working at Cherry Hinton in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, have uncovered a wealth of Roman and Anglo-Saxon...
Paleontologists have finally determined what hyoliths — a group of extinct marine creatures — actually are.
Reconstruction of the hyolith Haplophrentis...
Milky Way’s 11 most distant stars are located roughly 300,000 light-years away from us. According to a team of astronomers at Harvard University, five...
In the Jan. 10 issue of the journal Stem Cell Reports, Dr. Michiko Mandai and colleagues at the RIKEN Center for Developmental Biology in Japan report...
A new species of ground beetle has been identified by Cornell University Professor James Liebherr.
Holotype specimen of Bryanites graeffii. Image credit:...
