Observations of the inner coma of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko with the Alice far-ultraviolet spectrograph onboard ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft reveal...
A team of scientists led by Dr Andrew Baker from Queensland University of Technology has described two new species of carnivorous marsupials from Australia.
The...
According to a team of astronomers at Aarhus University in Denmark, Earth-sized terrestrial planets orbit their host stars in circular patterns, much like...
This new image from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows bluish wind-blown deposits inside eroded craters in the Arabia Terra region of Mars.
This image...
A new study, led by Dr Demian Chapman from Stony Brook University, documents the first known cases of parthenogenesis – the ability of sexually reproducing...
According to a group of scientists headed by Dr Mark Legg of Legg Geophysical in Huntington Beach, residents of coastal Southern California could be surprised...
NASA’s Cassini space probe performed a close flyby of Saturn’s irregularly shaped moon Hyperion on 31 May 2015.
Cassini passed Hyperion on 31 May 2015...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have photographed an unusual galaxy called Messier 84.
This image of Messier 84 does not show the...
According to a group of researchers led by Prof Susumu Tonegawa from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, memories that have been lost as a result of...
A new study, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal (arXiv.org preprint), finds a link between the presence of supermassive black holes...
Dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded) like mammals, says paleontologist Dr Michael D’Emic of Stony Brook University.
Torvosaurus gurneyi. Image credit:...
Paleontologists Dr William Korth of Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Dr Joshua Samuels of John Day Fossil Beds National Monument have...
A new genomic analysis of people currently living in Egypt and Ethiopia suggests that Eurasians originated when early Africans moved north – through...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have observed a collision between two knots of ejected matter in the extragalactic jet blasting out...
According to a team of scientists led by Dr Joseph Shea of the International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development in Kathmandu, Nepal, if greenhouse-gas...
NASA engineers have begun testing a car-sized Mars lander, dubbed InSight, scheduled to launch in 2016.
This artist’s rendition shows the InSight Mars...
Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologists excavating at the archaeological site of the Bet Ha-‘Emeq have unearthed a fragment of an Early Bronze Age...
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has beamed back its best-yet images of the dwarf planet Pluto and Charon, Pluto’s largest moon.
This image, taken May...
Wounds identified on a 430,000-year-old hominin skull from the archaeological site of Sima de los Huesos in northern Spain may indicate one of the first...
A multinational group of anthropologists has described a new human ancestor species that lived in what is now the Afar region of Ethiopia about 3.3 –...
