Strong new evidence supports a theory that the Sun’s corona is heated by tiny explosions called nanoflares.
Dr Adrian Daw of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight...
Water vapor could have been just as abundant in cosmic molecular clouds a billion years after the Big Bang as it is today, says a group of researchers...
A team of astronomers using three ground-based telescopes in the United States has discovered two super-Earths around a nearby star known as HD 7924.
The...
Stunning new images of Mercury have been produced by combining data from the Mercury Atmosphere and Surface Composition Spectrometer (MASCS) instrument...
A team of researchers co-led by Dr Slawek Tulaczyk of the University of California, Santa Cruz, and Dr Jill Mikucki of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville,...
A team of scientists from Canada and France has produced a three-dimensional density map of galaxies that spans approximately 2 billion light-years.
A...
An international team of paleontologists led by Dr Fernando Novas of the Bernardino Rivadavia Natural Sciences Museum in Buenos Aires has described a new...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have acquired an image of a distant galaxy called UGC 5797.
This image shows the star-forming galaxy...
A group of scientists from Northwestern University and Duke University has found a way to manufacture a liquid nanoscopic laser whose emission properties...
Bumblebees that have been infected by parasites seek out flowers with nicotine in the nectar, says a group of scientists from Royal Holloway University...
‘Red and dead’ galaxies that stopped forming stars in the distant past can sometimes come back to life, find two studies published in the journal Monthly...
According to a group of astronomers led by Dr Daniel Tamayo of the University of Toronto Scarborough’s Centre for Planetary Science and the Canadian...
Genetic researchers have sequenced and analyzed the complete genomes of two key bumblebee species – the European buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)...
Dr Igor Chilingarian of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and his colleague, Dr Ivan Zolotukhin of the L’Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique...
According to a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, the feeling of invisibility changes physical stress response in challenging social...
Marine biologists have discovered what they say is the second specimen ever found of the pocket shark (Mollisquama parini).
A specimen of the pocket shark...
A team of scientists led by Dr Hsin-Hua Huang of California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and the University of Utah has discovered a reservoir of...
To commemorate the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope’s 25 years of success, astronomers have captured a stunning new image of a distant star cluster known...
A group of scientists from the United States, Sweden, Canada, and the UK, has sequenced and analyzed the complete high-quality genomes of two woolly mammoths...
