Featured News

Astronomers Find New Extreme Dwarf Planet: 2015 TG387

This image of 2015 TG387 was taken by the Subaru Telescope on October 13, 2015. Image credit: Dave Tholen / Chad Trujillo / Scott Sheppard.
Oct 5, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers have discovered a new dwarf planet in the Oort Cloud, a spherical ‘cloud’ of frozen objects surrounding the Solar System and extending halfway to the nearest stars. Named 2015 TG387, the new object has an orbit that supports the presence of an unknown massive distant planet, called Planet Nine. This image of 2015 TG387 was taken by the Subaru Telescope on October 13, 2015. Image credit: Dave Tholen / Chad Trujillo / Scott Sheppard. Nicknamed...

read more...
An artist’s impression of the gas giant Kepler 1625b with its large moon, Kepler 1625b-i; the pair has a similar mass and radius ratio to the Earth-Moon system but scaled up by a factor of 11. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

Kepler 1625b Has Neptune-Sized Moon, Astronomers Say

Oct 4, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope have assembled compelling evidence for the existence of a large...

The positions and reconstructed orbits of 20 high-velocity stars, represented on top of an artistic view of the Milky Way Galaxy. The seven stars shown in red are sprinting away from the Galaxy and could be traveling fast enough to eventually escape its gravity. Surprisingly, the study revealed also thirteen stars, shown in orange, that are racing towards the Milky Way: these could be stars from another galaxy, zooming right through our own. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Marchetti et al.

ESA’s Gaia Satellite Spots High-Velocity Stars Flying between Galaxies

Oct 4, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using data from ESA’s star mapping Gaia mission to look for hypervelocity stars being kicked out of our Milky Way Galaxy were surprised to...

The exquisite sensitivity of the MUSE spectrograph on ESO’s Very Large Telescope allowed for direct observations of dim clouds of hydrogen glowing with Lyman-alpha emission in the early Universe. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / ESO / Lutz Wisotzki et al.

Early Universe is Glowing with Lyman-alpha Emission

Oct 3, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered an unexpected abundance of Lyman-alpha...

An artist’s impression of the super-Earth K2-265b. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

K2-265b: Hot, Rocky Super-Earth Found Circling Sun-Like Star

Oct 2, 2018 by Natali Anderson

Astronomers have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet orbiting a Sun-like star 473 light-years from Earth. An artist’s impression of the super-Earth...

The LHCb magnet. Image credit: CERN.

CERN Physicists Discover Two New Particles

Oct 1, 2018 by News Staff

Physicists from CERN’s Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment have found two never-before-seen particles, as well as hints of another new particle,...

An artist’s reconstruction of Ledumahadi mafube foraging in the Early Jurassic of South Africa; in the foreground, Heterodontosaurus. Image credit: Viktor Radermacher, University of the Witwatersrand.

New Jurassic Sauropodomorph Dinosaur Unveiled

Oct 1, 2018 by News Staff

Paleontologists have discovered what they say is a completely unexpected new sauropodomorph dinosaur that lived 200 million years ago (Jurassic period)...

The blue-throated hillstar (Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus), male. Image credit: Sornoza-Molina et al, doi: 10.1642/AUK-18-58.1.

New Hummingbird Species Discovered in Ecuador

Sep 28, 2018 by News Staff

A new species of hummingbird, called the blue-throated hillstar (Oreotrochilus cyanolaemus), has been discovered in the southwestern Andes of Ecuador by...

An artist’s impression of the strong magnetic neutron star Swift J0243.6+6124 launching a jet. Image credit: ICRAR / University of Amsterdam.

Highly Magnetic Neutron Star Unexpectedly Shoots Jet of Material

Sep 28, 2018 by News Staff

Astronomers using NSF’s Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array have discovered a fast-moving jet of material propelled outward from a strongly magnetized neutron...

An artist’s illustration of a giant elephant bird. Image credit: Jaime Chirinos.

Vorombe titan: Researchers Name World’s Largest Ever Bird

Sep 28, 2018 by News Staff

After decades of conflicting evidence and numerous publications, a team of researchers at the Zoological Society of London’s Institute of Zoology has...

This artist’s impression shows the first interstellar asteroid ‘Oumuamua. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Oumuamua Traced to Four Possible Home Stars

Sep 27, 2018 by News Staff

In October 2017, a fast moving, cigar-shaped comet of extrasolar origin was discovered close to the Earth with the Pan-STARRS1 telescope in Hawai’i....

Tosanoides aphrodite in its natural environment, photographed at a depth of 390 feet (120 m) in St. Paul’s Rocks, Brazil. Image credit: L.A. Rocha.

Scientists Discover New Species of Reef Fish: Tosanoides aphrodite

Sep 27, 2018 by Enrico de Lazaro

Marine biologists from the California Academy of Sciences have discovered a new species of coral reef fish living in the waters off Saint Paul’s Rocks,...

Jinguofortis perplexus. Image credit: Chung-Tat Cheung.

New Species of Prehistoric Short-Tailed Bird Found in China

Sep 26, 2018 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found the remains — the well-preserved complete skeleton and feathers — of a short-tailed bird that lived 127 million...

An artist’s concept of a dust storm on Titan. Image credit: NASA / ESA / IPGP / Labex UnivEarthS / University Paris Diderot.

Cassini Scientists Spot Dust Storms on Saturn’s Moon Titan

Sep 25, 2018 by News Staff

Researchers using data from NASA’s Cassini orbiter have found evidence for massive dust storms in Titan’s equatorial regions. The discovery, reported...

An artist’s impression of a terraformed Mars. Image credit: Daein Ballard / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Ancient Mars Had Ample Chemical Energy to Support Subsurface Microbial Colonies

Sep 25, 2018 by News Staff

Mars had right conditions for subsurface life some 3.7 to 4.1 billion years ago (Noachian period), according to new research from Brown University. An...

An artist’s impression of the super-Earth HD 39091c. Image credit: Sci-News.com.

TESS Discovers Its First Exoplanet: Super-Earth HD 39091c

Sep 24, 2018 by Sergio Prostak

Astronomers using data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite have discovered a super-Earth orbiting an unusually bright, Sun-like star called...

This image shows a single human skeletal stem cell-derived colony. Image credit: Chan et al, doi: 10.1016/j.cell.2018.07.029.

Skeletal Stem Cells Identified in Humans

Sep 24, 2018 by News Staff

Human skeletal stem cells capable of self-renewal and multilineage differentiation to bone, cartilage, and stroma have been isolated by Dr. Michael Longaker...

Dickinsonia, which lived more than 550 million years ago, were flat, soft-bodied creatures that moved along the sea bed to eat microbes and algae. Image credit: University of California, Riverside.

Ancient Cholesterol Confirms Dickinsonia as One of Earth’s First Animals

Sep 21, 2018 by News Staff

The first complex organisms emerged during the Ediacaran period (635-541 million years ago). Ediacaran fossils are as ‘strange as life on another planet’...

Neutron stars are the smallest, densest stars in the Universe. True to their name, neutron stars are composed almost entirely of neutrons. Duer et al suggest that some properties of neutron stars may be influenced not only by their multitude of densely packed neutrons, but also by a substantially smaller fraction of protons -- positively charged particles that make up just 5% of a neutron star. This is an illustration of a neutron star. Image credit: Casey Reed, Penn State University.

Nuclear Pasta: Exotic Substance in Neutron Stars’ Crust May Be Universe’s Strongest Material

Sep 19, 2018 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from McGill University, California Institute of Technology and Indiana University has calculated the strength of nuclear...

Gerlach et al determine four new personality types: average, reserved, self-centered and role model. Image credit: GraphicMama Team / Sci-News.com.

Researchers Determine Four New Personality Types

Sep 19, 2018 by News Staff

A team of researchers at Northwestern University has sifted through data from more than 1.5 million people around the world and found at least four distinct...

© 2011-2026. Sci.News. All Rights Reserved. | Back to top