The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this vivid image of the startlingly symmetrical nebula Hen 2-437.
This Hubble image shows the young planetary...
DNA evidence lifted from the bones and teeth of hunter-gatherers who lived in Europe from 35,000 years ago (Late Pleistocene) to 7,000 years ago (early...
A team of planetary researchers from the United States has found surprisingly little correlation between how dense a Saturn’s ring might appear to be...
According to a new study published in the journal Nature, ravens (Corvus corax) share human ability to think abstractly about other minds, adapting their...
A large multinational team of scientists has successfully sequenced the whole genome of the common bed bug (Cimex lectularius), uncovering several traits...
A team of archaeologists in Israel has uncovered evidence of tortoise bones at the Middle Pleistocene (420,000 to 300,000 years ago) site of Qesem Cave,...
A variety of hypotheses on how the brain folds have been proposed but none have been directly used to make testable predictions. Now, a group of scientists...
This artist’s concept shows an active supermassive black hole with a jet streaming outward at nearly the speed of light. Such black holes are often found...
NASA’s Uninhabited Aerial Vehicle Synthetic Aperture Radar (UAVSAR), an airborne radar developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, proved...
Scientists using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have found faint chemical traces of our Milky Way Galaxy lurking inside the Smith Cloud, a gigantic...
According to a new study published this week in the journal Nature, globular clusters make new stars by adopting stray cosmic gas and dust.
This Hubble...
Astronomers using ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope have assembled this colorful image of the small galaxy IC 1613.
This VLT image shows the irregular dwarf...
A team of scientists from the United States has demonstrated that ‘acoustic tweezers’ can be used to trap and manipulate single cells along three dimensions...
In a study published online in the journal PLoS ONE, scientists found that zebra stripes cannot be involved in allowing the animals to blend in with the...
Carnivorous plants, such as the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula), depend on an animal diet when grown in nutrient-poor soils. They sense the arrival of...
Scientists have discovered a new species of iguana in the mountains of central Chile, called Liolaemus uniformis.
Liolaemus uniformis: male (top) and female....
