This new image taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope depicts blue stars in the constellation of Sagittarius.
This image, taken with the Advanced...
More than 80 percent of the world and more than 99 percent of the U.S. and European populations live under light-polluted skies, according to a study and...
Hot, Jupiter-sized extrasolar planets often have cloud or haze layers in their atmospheres, and this may prevent astronomers from detecting atmospheric...
Nihonium (Nh), moscovium (Mc), tennessine (Ts) and oganesson (Og) are the new names of chemical elements 113, 115, 117 and 118 on the periodic table.
Periodic...
New hominin fossils from the Indonesian island of Flores shed light on the origin of the mysterious ‘hobbit’ species, Homo floresiensis.
Hominin remains...
A multinational team of astrophysicists has recorded the ‘sounds’ from some of the oldest stars in our Milky Way Galaxy.
This wide-field view is centered...
A team of scientists has found that grafting human parthenogenetic stem cell-derived neural stem cells (hpNSCs) into non-human primates modeled with Parkinson’s...
Therian mammals, the ancestors of most modern mammals, began their massive diversification 10-20 million years before the extinction of dinosaurs, according...
The archerfish (Toxotes chatareus), a species of freshwater tropical fish, can recognize individual people’s faces, shows a new study published in the...
The genome of Neanderthals contained harmful gene variants that made them around 40 percent less reproductively fit than modern humans. And non-Africans...
The Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera onboard NASA’s New Horizons robotic probe captured this image of Pluto only 19 minutes after closest approach...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of UGC 4879, the most isolated dwarf galaxy in the periphery of the Local Group of...
Dogs may have been domesticated independently in Asia and Europe from two separate wolf populations, according to a new study led by the University of...
Scientists using the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory have produced detailed radio maps of Jupiter’s...
According to a team of scientists from the United Kingdom and Greece, the underwater ‘archaeological remains’ of a long-lost Greek city were in fact...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have discovered that the Universe is expanding between 5% and 9% faster than previously calculated.
Cosmic...
