Scientists using the High Resolution Stereo Camera aboard ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft have captured a stunning new image of Hellas Chaos, a large region...
A team of researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, has created a device that enables its users to touch and feel three-dimensional holograms in thin...
According to a new NASA-led study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, the melt rate of glaciers in the Amundsen Sea Embayment, West...
Human eyes can detect light at wavelengths in the visual spectrum; other wavelengths, such as infrared and ultraviolet, are supposed to be invisible, but...
A new study published in the journal Nature Communications provides overwhelming evidence that the human skeleton found under a car park in Leicester,...
New radiocarbon dates on American mastodon (Mammut americanum) fossils in Alaska and Yukon (eastern Beringia) suggest this species suffered local extinction...
An international group of astronomers using a 2-meter-class ground-based telescope has detected the shallow transit of a nearby exoplanet called 55 Cancri...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of a tiny galaxy known as UGC 1281.
This image shows the dwarf galaxy UGC 1281....
An international team of archaeologists has unearthed three 2,200-year-old, well-preserved glass mosaics at the site of the ancient city of Zeugma in Turkey.
The...
A multinational group of genetic researchers has sequenced the genome of a maritime centipede called Strigamia maritima, enabling them to reconstruct many...
A team of astronomers using ESO’s MPG/ESO 2.2-m telescope has captured a colorful view of the open star cluster NGC 3532.
This image of the bright star...
An international group of scientists using data from ESA’s Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Explorer (GOCE) has created the most accurate...
A team of astronomers led by Dr Sebastian Hoenig from the University of Copenhagen and the University of Southampton has developed a new method for determining...
A group of researchers headed by Prof Daniel Baker of the University of Colorado’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics has discovered a nearly...
Using two supercomputers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Swiss National Supercomputing Center, a group of researchers headed by Dr Simon Portegies...
A team of scientists led by Dr Sunghwan Jung of Virginia Tech has identified and modeled the fluid dynamics at play when dogs (Canis lupus familiaris)...
New Hubble Space Telescope observations of globular star clusters in a tiny galaxy called the Fornax dwarf spheroidal galaxy (Fornax dSph) show these objects...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have photographed a distant barred spiral galaxy called NGC 986.
This image shows the barred spiral galaxy...
Researchers from Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom using an autonomous underwater vehicle known as the SeaBED have created the first...
