Using data from three of NASA’s space observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers...
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring the strength of the very weak van der Waals forces passing between individual atoms.
Noble gas...
According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, cephalopods’ numbers have increased in the world’s oceans over the past six decades.
Giant...
Astronomers have detected and confirmed the faintest early-Universe galaxy ever using the 10-m Keck II telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii.
Color...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of an enormous group of galaxies in the constellation of Leo.
This Hubble image shows...
Taxonomy experts at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) selected the top 10 from among the estimated 18,000 new species named...
Using DNA analysis, scientists have confirmed the capture of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) in South Florida.
A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)....
This new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, shows the strikingly colorful gas cloud LHA 120-N55 (N55 for...
On May 12, 2016, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this incredible photo of Mars, when the planet...
A team of scientists led by Tanja van de Ven from the University of Cape Town has found that southern yellow-billed hornbills (Tockus leucomelas) in the...
Massive meteorite impacts triggered two mega-tsunamis in the early Martian ocean 3.4 billion years ago, according to scientists writing in the journal...
Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have detected very low levels of carbon monoxide gas in the debris disk around the nearby star...
Underwater archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and amateur divers have discovered the cargo of a Roman trading ship that sank 1,600...
A new study modeling conditions in Europa’s global liquid ocean suggests that the necessary balance of chemical energy for life could exist there.
Europa....
An international team of scientists from South Korea and Australia has found evidence of a major asteroid impact that occurred approximately 3.5 billion...
In a study published in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint), a team of astronomers at Cornell University has modeled the locations of the habitable...
The four spacecraft of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale Mission (MMS) have flown through the heart of a magnetic process that controls Earth’s space...
A new study led by Anglia Ruskin University researcher Prof. Viren Swami shows that people who believe in conspiracy theories (420 U.S. adults were sampled)...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the lenticular galaxy NGC 5308.
This Hubble image shows the lenticular galaxy NGC...
Astronomers report that they have observed the most metal-poor galaxy ever seen in the Local Universe, a region of space within about one billion light-years...
