A close encounter with Jupiter approximately 4 billion years ago may have resulted in another giant planet’s ejection from the Solar System, according...
In 2014, NASA’s Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the agency’s Swift satellite observed an X-flare from the supermassive black hole...
A distinctive pattern of tooth marks on a 66-million-year-old tyrannosaur bone found in eastern Wyoming offers one of the best evidences yet that tyrannosaurid...
A reentry of a suspected piece of space junk from a very high orbit on November 13, 2015, offers a great opportunity to gather data to improve our knowledge...
In November 2014, Schmidt Ocean Institute’s research vessel Falkor discovered a seamount, or underwater mountain, 28,500 feet (8,700 m) on the ocean...
Paleontologists from the University of Alberta have unearthed an amazing ~ 75 million-year-old fossil of an ostrich-like dinosaur known as Ornithomimus.
Reconstruction...
A new study published this week in the journal Biology Letters overturns the popular assumption that the mitochondrial evolution is only visible over long...
A group of scientists from the United Kingdom and Spain have built the world’s first working acoustic tractor beam.
Holograms are 3D light-fields that...
Using data from the VISTA Variables in the Via Lactea Survey (VVV) ESO Public Survey, astronomers have discovered a previously unknown component of the...
After a hundred years of debate, a team of Canadian scientists has proved that American eels (Anguilla rostrata) really do migrate to the Sargasso Sea...
A team of scientists from the United States and Sweden used state-of-the-art molecular analysis to explore the microbial environment on the International...
NASA scientists, using a camera aboard the agency’s Dawn spacecraft, have created a stunning mosaic image of a small part of Ceres’ surface. The mosaic...
A multinational group of archaeologists has unearthed a 3,500-year-old tomb of Mycenaean warrior near the city of Pylos on the southwest coast of Greece...
For several decades, scientists have wondered how Pleistocene ecosystems (2.5 million to 11,700 years ago) survived despite the presence of huge herbivores,...
A group of physicists from the United States and Israel has discovered a novel phase of matter that is characterized by an unusual ordering of electrons.
Artist’s...
A multinational team of researchers has sequenced the nuclear genome of the aurochs (Bos primigenius), an extinct species of ox that inhabited Europe,...
An international team of biologists from Australia and the United States has discovered two new species of methane-metabolizing archaea.
Archaea were first...
The NASA/ESA/Hubble Heritage Team has released a stunning image of a complex star system known as DI Cha.
This image from Hubble’s Advanced Camera for...
