ESA’s Venus Express spacecraft has discovered that Venus spins a little slower than previously measured.
Venus Express (ESA)
According to the European...
A team of astronomers has used the HAWK-I camera on ESO’s Very Large Telescope to take the most detailed panorama of the Carina Nebula in infrared light.
The...
An international team of researchers has reconstructed a song played by a prehistoric bushcricket some 165 million years ago.
A modern-day bushcricket...
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has unearthed the foundation of a large fortress on the Hill of Jonah in Ashdod.
Remains...
ESA’s Mars Express has returned a stunning close-up of the Syrtis Major region on Mars.
Part of the Syrtis Major region on Mars (ESA / DLR / FU Berlin...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken a close-up view of the brightest distant ‘magnified’ galaxy known to date.
Galaxy cluster RCS2 032727-132623...
A team of UK researchers has revealed how the arrival of the first plants 470 million years ago triggered a series of ice ages.
The moss Physcomitrella...
Radar data from the Cassini spacecraft have revealed regional variations amongst sand dunes on Titan, the largest moon of Saturn.
Dune fields are common...
Syrian archaeologists have announced new discoveries found at an archaeological site near the coastal town of Jableh in Lattakia governorate, Syria.
According...
For the first time, a team of scientists at Washington University School of Medicine has identified a human receptor that can taste fat.
The study, published...
A team of biologists has discovered two new species of frogs in New Guinea, one of which breaks the record for the world’s tiniest known vertebrate.
The...
A team of researchers has identified nicotine traces in a Mayan flask while examining ancient vessels from the Kislak Collection of the US Library of Congress...
A team of archaeologists has announced new discoveries unearthed at the archaeological site of the ancient city of Bosra, southern Syria.
Roman bathhouses...
A team of researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center has found that some insects such as crickets and katydids evolved their supersensitive...
An international team of astrophysicists has discovered the ruins of a planetary system consisting of the cores of two former giant planets orbiting around...
A U.S. team of researchers has discovered the evidence of complex hydrocarbon and/or nitrile molecules lying on the Pluto’s surface.
Artist’s impression...
Israeli archaeologists have uncovered the ruins of an ancient bathhouse dating back to the Byzantine era.
The newly discovered Byzantine bathhouse in Judea...
NASA’s Kepler mission has detected two extrasolar Earth-sized planets, reported in a press release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
The...
