Animations that compress more than two decades of satellite images into one second reveal the complex behavior and flow of glaciers in the Karakoram mountain...
A multinational team of scientists led by Tufts University biologists has succeeded in inducing a species of planarian, Girardia dorotocephala, to grow...
A group of entomologists led by Dr Christopher Reid of the University of Sydney has discovered complex bridges constructed by Eciton army ants with their...
On approach to the Pluto system in July 2015, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured images of the dwarf planet and its biggest moon, Charon, rotating...
According to new research published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the Andes have been a mountain chain for much longer than previously thought.
Torres...
An international group of researchers has sequenced the genomes of Late Upper Paleolithic (13,300 years old) and Mesolithic (9,700 years old) males from...
Astronomers using data from ESA’s Hipparcos space astrometry mission have produced a 3D visualization of all of O and B type stars within 1,630 light...
A new study in the journal Science suggests that water-soaked grains of dust present early in the Solar System are the source of Earth’s water.
Early...
Bee products were exploited continuously at least from the seventh millennium BC, according to a multinational team of scientists led by University of...
An international team of astronomers has discovered the oldest stars ever seen, dating from before the Milky Way Galaxy formed, when the Universe was just...
A team of astronomers has discovered a new rocky, Earth-sized exoplanet orbiting a star approximately 39 light-years away.
In this artist’s conception...
The sight of a massive asteroid being ripped apart by a white dwarf called SDSS J122859.93+104032.9 (J1228+1040 for short) and forming a debris disk has...
According to a new study published in the AAPS Journal, medication degradation in space does not differ from what is seen on the planet.
The International...
Phobos, the larger and inner of the two natural satellites of Mars, is slowly being pulled apart by tidal forces and is expected to break up within the...
Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have uncovered for the first time a population of ancient white dwarf stars embedded in the Milky...
A University of Southampton-led of team of archaeologists has discovered almost two dozen shipwrecks around the Fourni archipelago, Greece.
Archaeologists...
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,...
