A group of astronomers led by Benjamin Montet of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, has discovered a highly irradiated mini-Neptune exoplanet...
Astronomers using the Advanced Camera for Surveys aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have captured the best image so far of the spiral galaxy NGC...
According to a new study led by Prof William Ripple of Oregon State University, many populations of large plant-eaters such as elephants, bison, rhinoceroses,...
Astronomers using the 100-meter Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope have discovered an exotic pulsar that has the widest orbit of any around a neutron...
According to new research from the University of California, Irvine, and the University of Nevada, exposure to galactic cosmic rays may have long-term...
An international group of astronomers from the United States, Australia, Chile, Germany, and Hungary, has discovered an extrasolar gas giant orbiting very...
A multinational group of ornithologists, co-led by Dr Per Alström of the Swedish Species Information Centre and Dr Fumin Lei of the Chinese Academy of...
This image is the last one captured and beamed back to Earth by NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft.
This image from MESSENGER is located within the floor of...
Using high-speed synchrotron X-ray imaging, a team of scientists led by Prof Christine Ortiz of Massachusetts Institute of Technology was able to look...
MESSENGER mission scientists have confirmed that the probe impacted the surface of Mercury on April 30th, as predicted, at 3:26 p.m. EDT (12:26 p.m. PDT,...
Bat wings are equipped with an unusual repertoire of very sensitive touch sensors, a new study in the journal Cell Reports has found.
The big brown bat...
Astronomers using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have created a 3D map of the iconic Pillars of Creation.
This image...
A group of researchers led by Dr Johannes Karstensen of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel in Germany has discovered unexpectedly low...
A team of paleontologists, co-led by Dr Xing Xu and Dr Xiaoting Zheng of the Linyi University’s Institute of Geology and Paleontology, has discovered...
The Long-Range Reconnaissance Imager (LORRI) on NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured some spectacular new images of Pluto, revealing bright and...
According to a new study in the journal Chemical Communications, alkaline hydrothermal vents on the seabed are able to produce simple carbon-based molecules,...
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...
