This new image from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows the planet’s south polar ice cap and ancient, cratered highlands.
The high-resolution HRSC camera...
A nearby dwarf irregular galaxy called the Wolf-Lundmark-Melotte (WLM) poses an intriguing mystery: how is it able to form large star clusters without...
Archaeologists have begun to piece together an archaeological and historical narrative of how the crew of the wrecked 19th century Russian-American Company...
A large, multinational team of scientists has discovered a previously-unknown species of extinct hominin in the Rising Star cave, Cradle of Humankind,...
An international team of scientists has generated the most accurate statistical description yet of early galaxies as they existed in the Universe about...
The saga of giant Acanthamoeba-infecting viruses started in 2003 with the discovery of Mimivirus. Two additional types of giant viruses have been discovered...
Humans split from our closest African ape relatives in the genus Pan around six to seven million years ago. We have features that clearly link us with...
New Caledonian crows (Corvus moneduloides) make and use tools, and tool types vary over geographic landscapes. How the birds transmit knowledge to each...
Rodents such as rats and mice huddle together to keep warm. In a new study published in the open-access journal PLoS Computational Biology, scientists...
ESA’s Sentinel-2A satellite has captured detailed images of a phytoplankton bloom in the middle of the Baltic Sea on 7 August 2015. This particular bloom...
The Basques are not direct descendants from hunter-gatherers of 10,000 years ago; instead, they have more recent genetic links to early Iberian farmers,...
This image portrays the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds – two spectacular, naked-eye companion galaxies to our own Milky Way Galaxy; and a filament...
Using remote sensing techniques and geophysical surveys, archaeologists from the Stonehenge Hidden Landscapes Project have discovered the remains of a...
A team of marine biologists from Canada has described a new cryptic species of giant file clam, Acesta cryptadelphe, originally collected from the waters...
A new species of ancient sea turtle has been identified from fossils found in Colombia. The fossils are at least 120 million years old, about 10 million...
A multinational group of paleontologists has dated a species of fossil monkey, the Hispaniola monkey (Antillothrix bernensis), to over one million years...
Adult cats (Felis silvestris catus) are typically quite autonomous, even in their social relationships, and not necessarily dependent on others to provide...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the famous galaxy Messier 63, also known as the Sunflower Galaxy.
This image shows...
