The Advanced Camera for Surveys and the Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured this image of part of an...
Astronomers using the Palomar Cosmic Web Imager have discovered a giant protogalaxy 10 billion light-years away, and found that it is connected to a filament...
Explore the craters, bright spots, mountains and other features of Ceres, a dwarf planet in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The data for this...
A ritual bath, or a miqwe, dating to the Second Temple period (the first century CE), has been discovered in an underground cave in the Arnona quarter...
A new study led by Lauren Welbourne from the University of York, UK, has revealed that humans see things differently in summer compared with winter.
Scientists...
A team of scientists has made a surprising discovery about two previously known species of tree frogs from Brazil: they are actually venomous.
The Greening’s...
The larvae of the parasitic wasp Reclinervellus nielseni turn their host spiders Cyclosa argenteoalba into drugged navvys, to modify the web structure...
A new species of the deep-sea anglerfish genus Lasiognathus has been described from the deep waters of the northern Gulf of Mexico.
Lasiognathus dinema,...
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists have discovered that planetary rings, such as those orbiting Saturn,...
Marine biologists from the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK, have described two new species of tiny marine crustaceans called amphipods...
An international team of researchers has identified molecules in the earthworm gut that enable digestion of polyphenol-rich plant material, such as fallen...
ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile has captured the best view yet of the little-known nebula ESO 378-1, also known as the Southern Owl Nebula, PN K...
A team of scientists has found that wild bonobos (Pan paniscus), our closest living primate relatives, communicate in a similar manner to human babies.
Wild...
Neutron stars may rival black holes in their ability to accelerate powerful jets of material to nearly the speed of light, says a group of scientists from...
A multinational team of astronomers with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey-III (SDSS) has produced a new map of our home Milky Way Galaxy and determined that...
A team of archaeologists directed by Prof Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University has discovered a fortification wall and an entrance gate of the Biblical city...
