Researchers at NASA have just released colorful new topographic maps of the dwarf planet Ceres, based on data gathered by the agency’s Dawn spacecraft.
This...
The light-sensing molecules that tell plants whether to germinate, when to flower and which direction to grow were inherited millions of years ago from...
Members of Theropoda, the only clade of predominantly predatory dinosaurs, were successful predators partly due to a unique, deeply serrated tooth structure...
This map-projected view of the dwarf planet Pluto was created from images taken by New Horizons’ Long Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) between July...
A team of scientists at the Senckenberg Research Center for Biodiversity and Climate in Frankfurt, Germany, has reconstructed large parts of the male chromosome...
The 280-mile-wide (450 km) impact crater Odysseus on Tethys stands out brightly from the rest of the illuminated crescent as seen by the NASA/ESA Cassini...
A new species of diamond frog has been found living in the high altitude forests of the Sorata massif in north Madagascar.
Rhombophryne longicrus in life....
Just seven hours after closest approach, the spacecraft looked back and captured an incredible image of the dwarf planet’s atmosphere, backlit by the...
The Wide-Field Planetary Camera 2 aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured this image of NGC 6565.
This Hubble image shows the planetary...
Scientists with NASA’s New Horizons mission have released the sharpest view yet of Pluto.
This mosaic provides the best view ever obtained of the dwarf...
The New Horizons spacecraft has found evidence of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, and methane ices flowing across the dwarf planet’s surface.
In the northern...
According to a trio of animal physiology researchers from Japan, the highest-ranking rooster has priority to announce the break of dawn.
Rooster in the...
This image of the dwarf planet and its largest moon was captured by New Horizons’ Ralph color imager on July 14, 2015, five hours before Pluto closest...
A team of paleontologists, led by Dr Dave Martill from the University of Portsmouth, UK, has found a unique four-legged specimen in the Crato Formation...
X-rays from NASA’s Chandra Observatory reveal that a fast-moving pulsar in orbit around a massive star punched a hole in a circumstellar disk of material...
Using NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a super-Earth exoplanet in the ‘habitable zone’ of a G2-type star called Kepler-452.
This...
Short, rapid warming events, known as interstadials, coincided with major extinction events, according to a team of scientists from Australia and the United...
An international group of scientists led by the University of Leipzig, Germany, has sequenced the genome of the North Island brown kiwi (Apteryx mantelli)...
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed evidence of early small-scale agricultural cultivation at Ohalo II, a 23,000-year-old hunter-gatherers’ sedentary...
