According to NASA’s New Horizons team, the surface of the dwarf planet Pluto varies in age.
Locations of 1,070 craters mapped on Pluto by the New Horizons...
According to a team of paleontologists at the University of Edinburgh, UK, the first complex animals lived millions of years earlier than previously thought.
Reconstruction...
A lonely spiral galaxy, LEDA 1852, has been captured in this image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope.
This image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...
In a paper published in the journal Animal Cognition, Japanese scientists report on two female Asian elephants (Elephas maximus) in Kamine Zoo, Japan,...
Thanks to NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) orbiter, scientists have learned more about what happened to the Martian climate since...
A fresh crater caught attention of New Horizons team members as they were studying high-resolution infrared image of Pluto’s largest moon.
This composite...
According to a large international team of physicists, the attractive force between antiprotons is similar to that between protons.
A new measurement by...
Diamond formation in the very deep Earth may be a more common process than previously thought, according to a new study in the journal Nature Communications.
Diamonds....
Using digital models and computer analyses, a paleontologist at the University of Bristol, UK, has studied the muscle strain during jaw opening of three...
Archaeologists digging at the site of the ancient city of Doliche in Turkey have uncovered a stunning mosaic that would’ve been used as the floor of...
A multinational team of scientists has sequenced genomes of a wild pineapple relative, the red pineapple (Ananas bracteatus), and two cultivated varieties...
A tiny snail shell with a diameter of 0.028 inches (0.7 mm) was found on the Malaysian portion of the island of Borneo by a group of scientists from the...
A team of scientists from the University of Washington and the University of Toronto is the first to simulate 3D exotic clouds in the atmosphere of an...
Dr Shoshanna Cole, a planetary researcher at Ithaca College, has pieced together a compelling story about how acidic water vapors may have eaten at the...
A new species of woolly horseshoe bat has been described from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo.
The Francis’ woolly horseshoe bat (Rhinolophus francisi). Image...
NASA has released a series of breathtaking images of Enceladus, a frozen moon of Saturn, captured by the agency’s Cassini spacecraft.
Cassini captured...
Spiral-arm-like features seen around two newborn stars, SAO 206462 and MWC 758, may be evidence for the presence of giant, unseen planets, says a team...
Paleontologists from Spain and the United States have discovered a new genus and species of small-bodied ape that lived about 11.6 million years ago, before...
