Paleontologists have found ancient DNA and spores of truffle-like fungi, including at least one colorful species, inside two coprolites of the upland moa...
In July 2024, a home security camera in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada, captured rare video and sound of a meteorite striking Earth. According...
Dinosaurs dominated Mesozoic terrestrial ecosystems for approximately 160 million years, but their biogeographic origin remains poorly understood. The...
The near-Earth asteroid 2024 PT5 is on an Earth-like orbit that remained in the immediate vicinity of our planet for several months at the end of 2024.
2024 PT5...
In a study published in the journal Nature Geoscience, planetary researchers used high-resolution images and compositional data captured by orbiters to...
Many species of birds use shed snake skin in nest construction, but this behavior is poorly understood. In new research, ornithologists at Cornell University...
The source of the newly-detected fast radio burst, FRB 20240209A, is in the distant outskirts of an ancient elliptical galaxy, which is located 2 billion...
A massive flood called the Zanclean megaflood ended the Messinian salinity crisis, which lasted between 5.97 and 5.33 million years ago, according to new...
The decision to urinate involves a complex combination of both physiological and social considerations. However, the social dimensions of urination remain...
Archaeologists with the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) have discovered the ruins of a Byzantine-period monastery with a colorful mosaic floor and a...
Australopithecus had a variable but plant-based diet, according to an analysis of stable isotope data from seven hominin specimens dating back 3.5 million...
A new Hubble image features a dusty yet sparkling scene from the Large Magellanic Cloud, one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies.
This Hubble image...
Homo erectus, an early member of the genus Homo, successfully navigated harsher and more arid terrains for longer in Eastern Africa than previously thought,...
Launched on December 19, 2013, the fuel tank of ESA’s star-mapping satellite Gaia is now approaching empty, but this is far from the end of the mission....
The snow leopard (Panthera uncia) is a large feline unique to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and its surrounding areas. How this apex predator gradually adapted...
The octopus has a motor control challenge of enormous complexity. Each of its eight arms is a muscular hydrostat, a soft-bodied structure that lacks a...
WASP-132 is a unique multi-planet system in that both an inner rocky planet and the newly-discovered outer giant planet are in a system with a hot-Jupiter...
Paleoanthropologists have characterized the properties of raw stone materials that were selected and used by Early Pleistocene tool-makers at an Acheulian...
Wolf-Rayet 140 (also known as WR 140 or HD 193793) is a system of two massive stars located some 5,000 light-years away in the constellation of Cygnus....
