A team of scientists using long observations from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory has suggested a massive star that became the Cassiopeia A supernova...
A team of scientists from the University of Utah and the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory has found a new explanation for the growth of supermassive...
An international team of astronomers has for the first time produced an image that shows more than one billion stars in the Milky Way.
Detail of a star-forming...
A team of researchers from the Nottingham Trent University has suggested that a 4000-year-old unique triangular shaped monolith, known as the Gardom’s...
An international team of astronomers working with the HARPS spectrograph on the 3.6-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile has found...
An international team of astronomers has discovered an ancient planetary system that is likely to be a survivor from one of the earliest cosmic eras.
An...
An international team of paleontologists has discovered a new species of fossil scops owl, the first extinct bird on the archipelago of Madeira, Portugal.
Illustration...
A team of researchers has confirmed the possibility of existence of hypervelocity planets, which zoom through space at a few percent of the speed of light...
An international team of astronomers has discovered a rare square galaxy with a striking resemblance to an emerald cut diamond within a group of 250 galaxies...
A team of scientists has produced the first complete global geologic map of the Jovian satellite.
Geologic Map of Io (USGS / ASU)
The map, published by...
An international team of researchers has discovered that house mice accompanied Vikings during their invasions in the 10th century.
Mus musculus (Josef...
NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has taken the most detailed image so far of Messier 9, a globular star cluster located close to the centre of the galaxy.
Hubble...
An international team of researchers has found that rodent-like creatures called multituberculates flourished during the last 20 million years of the dinosaurs’...
Performing magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of the eyes and brains of 27 astronauts who have spent prolonged periods of time in space, a team of researchers...
A team of researchers has discovered that plumage of Microraptor, a pigeon-sized dinosaur that lived about 120 million years ago, was iridescent with a...
A team of researchers from the Catholic University of Brasilia, A Coruña University in Spain and the James Cook University in Australia has found that...
