An international team of astronomers has found that extraordinary large loops of matter around the galaxy NGC 5907 are the relic of a gigantic collision...
Researchers have for the first time demonstrated that gravity plays a role in the formation of molecular aggregates, and that it can even be used to make...
A team of archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority has published a report on results of excavation works conducted in 2010-2011 on the slopes...
A team of scientists from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich and Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and...
A team of scientists from the Institute of Cell Biophysics and the Institute of Physicochemical and Biological Problems in Soil Science, Russian Academy...
A joint British, Danish, American and Jordanian team of archaeologists has discovered 20,000-year-old hut structures at the archaeological site of Kharaneh...
A team of astronomers using the Hubble telescope has studied a mid-sized black hole in the spectacular edge-on galaxy ESO 243-49 and found that it is surrounded...
Using Atacama Pathfinder Experiment (APEX) telescope in Chile, an international team of astronomers has taken one of the finest images of a star formation...
A team of researchers from the Queen Mary University of London, UK, has discovered that bumblebees can use cues from their rivals the honeybees to learn...
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...
