May 24, 2012 by News Staff

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has taken a memorable view of a large Martian crater. Late afternoon shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars,...

May 23, 2012 by News Staff

North Carolina State University researchers have developed a model of a wind-driven tumbleweed Mars rover capable of moving across rocky Martian terrain. Model...

May 21, 2012 by News Staff

Tel Aviv University archaeologists have discovered a collection of gold and silver jewelry, dated from around 1100 B.C., hidden in a vessel at the archaeological...

May 21, 2012 by News Staff

US paleontologists have uncovered fossils of three new raptor dinosaurs that roamed what is now eastern Utah about 130 million years ago. Artist’s reconstruction...

May 18, 2012 by News Staff

A team of astronomers has detected a possible planet, some 1,500 light years away, that appears to be evaporating under the blistering heat of its parent...

May 18, 2012 by News Staff

A team of astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has discovered a giant, galaxy-packed filament ablaze with billions of new stars. Three...

May 17, 2012 by News Staff

A team of paleontologists and volunteers has discovered remains of at least seven different killer dinosaurs that once lived in what is now south-eastern...

May 16, 2012 by News Staff

British paleontologists have found signs of a degenerative condition similar to human arthritis in the jaw of a pliosaur, an ancient sea reptile that lived...

May 16, 2012 by News Staff

Using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, astronomers have discovered the first X-ray evidence of a supernova shock wave breaking through a cocoon...

May 15, 2012 by News Staff

A team of anthropologists has determined that a 1.5 metric ton block of engraved limestone found in a collapsed rock shelter in southern France constitutes...

May 14, 2012 by News Staff

Australian researchers have found that bird species with multiple plumage color forms within in the same population evolve into new species faster than...

May 11, 2012 by News Staff

Archaeologists excavating for the first time in the sprawling complex of Xultún, discovered nearly a century ago in Guatemala’s Petén region, have...

May 10, 2012 by News Staff

An international group of scientists led by the University of Buckingham in UK has claimed that life-bearing planets may exist in vast numbers in the space...

May 10, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers using ESA’s Herschel Space Observatory has shown that the number of stars that form during the early lives of galaxies...

May 9, 2012 by News Staff

A team of Israeli archaeologists has announced the discovery of objects that for the first time shed light on how a cult was organized in Judah at the...

May 8, 2012 by News Staff

A team of researchers from Auburn University has discovered a new trapdoor spider species from a well-developed housing subdivision in the heart of the...

May 8, 2012 by News Staff

Fossilized remains of a ceratosaurian dinosaur discovered in Australia in 2006 is the first evidence that a major group of meat-eating dinosaurs roamed...

May 4, 2012 by News Staff

European astrophysicists using the Hubble Space Telescope have discovered four white dwarfs surrounded by dust from shattered planetary bodies which once...

May 4, 2012 by News Staff

An international team of scientists analyzing data from NASA’s Mars Rover Opportunity has announced that the rover found what appeared to be veins...

May 4, 2012 by News Staff

Canadian fossil collectors from the Peace Region Paleontology Research Center in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, have discovered fossils of a stunning...