An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a very rare Type Ibn supernova on the outskirts of a bright elliptical galaxy located...
An international team of scientists led by the University of California Los Angeles has found that levels of a peptide called hypocretin (also known as...
U.S. researchers have discovered a long-lived zone of high-energy electrons stored between Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts.
Two giant swaths of radiation,...
A new study by Prof Mike Brown from the California Institute of Technology and Dr Kevin Hand from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory suggests that salty water...
A team of students from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, using the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment’s telescope ROTSE3b at the McDonald...
An ongoing study led by two San Francisco Bay Area scientists, Dr Roy Caldwell of the University of California, Berkeley, and Dr Richard Ross of the California...
Astronomers have discovered an unexpected spiral structure in the gas around the red giant star R Sculptoris.
Observations using ALMA have revealed an...
Astronomers at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile have captured a new image of part of the Seagull Nebula.
This cloud of gas known as Sharpless 2-292...
Using a method called reconstructive speckle imaging, a team of astronomers at the Gemini Observatory has captured the sharpest ground-based image ever...
Astronomers have assembled a new portrait of the deepest-ever view of the Universe by combining 10 years of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope observations.
This...
Dutch linguists have developed a new method using Bayesian phylogenetic approaches to analyze the evolution of structural features in more than 50 language...
Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have captured a new image of an actively star-forming galaxy known as NGC 7090.
This image shows the...
A new study by a multinational team of scientists supports the idea that viruses are ancient living organisms and not inanimate molecular remnants run...
An international team of researchers has completed the first sequencing of the Denisovan genome, shedding light on the relationships between these archaic...
