Dr Matthew Kenworthy of Leiden Observatory and Prof Eric Mamajek of the University of Rochester have discovered a so-called super-Saturn exoplanet with...
Astronomers using NASA’s Deep Space Network antenna have captured the first radar images of asteroid 2004 BL86, which made its closest approach January...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of the spiral galaxy NGC 4217.
This image shows the edge-on spiral...
Scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory are working on a helicopter drone that could scout a trail for future Mars exploration vehicles.
NASA’s...
A team of scientists led by Dr Stephanie LaMassa of Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics has identified the first changing look quasar, a gleaming...
Researchers from the Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) project have uncovered a unique ecosystem of fish and invertebrates...
A team of scientists led by Dr Tracy Kivell of the University of Kent and University College London has found strong evidence for stone tool use among...
A team of scientists led by Dr Luc Doyon of the University of Montreal has unearthed a rare prehistoric bone tool at the Grotte du Bison in Burgundy.
The...
Researchers using the BESSY II synchrotron in Berlin, Germany have captured information stored in ancient meteorites, formed in the early Solar System...
Scientists have found direct evidence of concentrated, long-term storage and sudden release of meltwater within sub-glacial lakes in Greenland.
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A team of synthetic biologists at Yale University has devised a way to ensure genetically modified organisms can be safely confined in the environment.
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Researchers plumbing the depths of the ocean have made a finding that could change the way we understand massive stellar explosions called supernovae.
The...
The region around a red giant star called R Sculptoris has been captured in this new image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope.
This image shows the region...
A team of physicists at the University of Rochester has used lasers to make metal surfaces extremely water repellent, or super-hydrophobic.
A water droplet...
A team of paleontologists headed by Dr Sterling Nesbitt of Virginia Tech has described a new genus and species of archosaur that lived in what is today...
Fish-hunting cone snails add a unique form of insulin to the venom cocktail they use to disable their fish prey, according to a new study.
The Geography...
A well-preserved fossil from the Yixian Formation of western Liaoning Province, China, represents the oldest record of post-natal parental care, according...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new view of the lenticular galaxy NGC 6861.
NGC 6861. Image credit: ESA / Hubble / NASA / J. Barrington.
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