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A team of researchers at the University of Oxford’s Department of Zoology has shown that the elements of the capacity of humans to build on the work...

In celebration of the 27th anniversary of the launch of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope in 1990, astronomers used the legendary telescope to take a...

Astronomers have discovered a ‘super-Earth’ exoplanet in the habitable zone of LHS 1140, a small, cool star in the constellation of Cetus, approximately...

An international team of marine biologists, led by researchers at Northeastern University and the University of Utah, is the first to investigate a never...

An international team of physicists from the United States, Japan, and China has created a fluid with negative mass, which is exactly what it sounds like....

A study by Dr. Siegfried Eggl of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Dr. Max Popp of Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute of Meteorology...

Recent observations of Europa by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have uncovered a plume of material erupting from the moon’s surface at precisely...

During NASA’s Cassini spacecraft’s deepest-ever dive through Enceladus’ plume of gas and ice grains, researchers discovered molecular hydrogen in...

Paleontologists have long wondered what the earliest dinosaur relatives looked like. Most assumed that they would look like dwarf dinosaurs and walk on...

Researchers using Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have uncovered new clues about the recently-discovered planetary body UZ224. The...

An international team of researchers, led by University of Leicester planetary astronomer Tom Stallard, has detected a localized region of cooling —...

Researchers from Austria and the United States have identified a group of giant viruses — Klosneuviruses — that harbor components of many other...

NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission has made the first detection of the continuous presence of iron, magnesium, and sodium...

An international group of primatologists has discovered a new primate, Galagoides kumbirensis (Angolan dwarf galago), with features not been seen by science...

An international team of astronomers, led by Keele University researcher John Southworth, has managed to detect an atmosphere around GJ 1132b, a ‘super-Earth’...

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope observed the Solar System’s largest planet on April 3, 2017 — just days before it is in opposition on April...

After 20 years in space and 13 years around Saturn, NASA’s Cassini spacecraft begins the final chapter of its remarkable story of exploration and discoveries:...

A team of scientists and cave divers has discovered and described the first European cave fish — a loach of the genus Barbatula. Loaches Barbatula...

A blood-engorged nymphal tick of the genus Amblyomma surrounded by fossilized mammalian erythrocytes (red blood cells) has been discovered in a piece of...