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This composite combines 678 separate images, taken by NSF-DOE Vera C. Rubin Observatory in just over seven hours of observing time, and shows the Trifid (top right) and Lagoon nebulae. Image credit: RubinObs / NOIRLab / SLAC / NSF / DOE / AURA.

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Releases Its First Images

Jun 24, 2025 by News Staff

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory is a major new scientific facility jointly funded by NSF and the U.S. DoE’s Office of Science. The new images are a small...

Life reconstruction of Bolg amondol. Image credit: Cullen Townsend.

Armored, Large-Bodied Lizards Lived alongside Dinosaurs in Cretaceous North America

Jun 18, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

New fossilized specimens of monstersaurs — including a previously unknown genus and species, Bolg amondol — from the Kaiparowits Formation...

This conceptual illustration of a computer based on 2D molecules displays an actual scanning electron microscope image of the computer fabricated by Ghosh et al. Image credit: Krishnendu Mukhopadhyay / Penn State.

Researchers Develop World’s First Non-Silicon 2D Computer

Jun 18, 2025 by News Staff

Silicon has enabled advancements in semiconductor technology through miniaturization, but scaling challenges necessitate the exploration of new materials....

Excavation of Fernatator prenticei’s skeleton. Note that the rostrum is incomplete, although it preserves an additional portion that has since been lost. T. Prentice at right, W. R. Wilson, general manager of the C.N.P. Coal Company, at left. Photo taken circa 1916, Elk River, between Morrissey and Fernie, British Columbia. Photographer unknown. Image credit: Massare et al.

Paleontologists Identify Fossil from British Columbia as Early Jurassic Ichthyosaur

Jun 16, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A partial skeleton found in the Fernie Formation in British Columbia, Canada, back in 1916 represents a new genus and species of an extinct marine reptile...

This artist’s conception shows denser regions of the cosmic web in blue and void areas in red. Image crdit: Jack Madden / IllustrisTNG / Ralf Konietzka / Liam Connor, CfA.

Astronomers Measure Distribution of Ordinary Matter across Cosmic Web

Jun 16, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers have used Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) to show that more than three-quarters of the Universe’s ordinary matter has been hiding in the thin gas...

Photograph of the bottom half of the Sun, with a highlighted square region around the Sun’s south pole. Taken in ultraviolet light, the image shows the hot gas in the Sun’s outer atmosphere, the corona, glowing yellow as it extends outwards in threads and loops from the Sun. Image credit: ESA / NASA / Solar Orbiter / EUI Team / D. Berghmans, ROB.

Solar Orbiter Images Sun’s Poles

Jun 12, 2025 by News Staff

Any image we have ever seen of the Sun was taken from around the Sun’s equator. This is because Earth, the other planets, and all other operational spacecraft...

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis. Image credit: Julius Csotonyi.

New Species of Tyrannosauroid Dinosaur Discovered in Mongolia

Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Scientifically named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, the newly-identified tyrannosauroid species is the closest-known ancestor to Tyrannosaurus rex. Khankhuuluu...

An artist’s rendition of the YSES-1 system consisting of the Sun-like star in the center, YSES-1b and its dusty circumplanetary disk (right), and YSES-1c with silicate clouds in its atmosphere (left). Image credit: Ellis Bogat.

Webb Observes Two Young Exoplanets in YSES-1 System

Jun 11, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected silicate clouds in the atmosphere of the exoplanet YSES-1c and a circumplanetary...

Artistic reconstruction of Spathagnathus roeperi. Image credit: Alessio Ciaffi.

New Pterosaur Species Unearthed in Germany

Jun 9, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of gnathosaurine pterosaur, named Spathagnathus roeperi, from a fossilized specimen found in the...

An artist’s impression of Diamantinasaurus matildae (Judy). Image credit: Travis Tischler.

Paleontologists Find Fossilized Gut Contents of Sauropod Dinosaur

Jun 9, 2025 by News Staff

Diamantinasaurus matildae, a species of sauropod dinosaur that lived around 94 million years ago (mid-Cretaceous period), ate conifers, seed ferns, and...

Life reconstruction of Dacentrurus armatus, a sister species of Thyreosaurus atlasicus. Image credit: Sci.News.

Paleontologists Unveil Europe’s Most Complete Skull of Stegosaur

Jun 6, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have recovered the dinosaur skull material from beds of the Upper Jurassic Villar del Arzobispo Formation in Teruel, Spain, and confidently...

An artist’s reconstruction of Taleta taleta. Image credit: Connor Ashbridge.

New Duckbilled Dinosaur Species Discovered: Taleta taleta

Jun 2, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have identified a new genus and species of small lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur from two fossilized jaws found in Morocco. An artist’s...

This artistic impression depicts the stage at which WASP-121b accumulated most of its gas, as inferred from the latest results. Image credit: T. Müller, MPIA & HdA.

Webb Detects Silicon Monoxide in Atmosphere of Ultrahot Jupiter WASP-121b

Jun 2, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected water, carbon monoxide, and silicon monoxide in the dayside atmosphere of WASP-121b...

Visualization of a soft tissue of Edmontosaurus created by photography, 3D modeling, digital painting, and histology of bones from Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. Image credit: Henry Sharpe.

Paleontologists Discover Previously Unknown Connective Tissue Structure in Dinosaurs

Jun 2, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists have found evidence of a previously unrecognized soft tissue structure in the cheek region of many dinosaur species, which they’ve called...

An illustration of Cretaceous period birds with other dinosaurs from the same time period in the background. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto.

73-Million-Year-Old Fossils Provide Oldest Evidence of Birds Nesting at Polar Latitudes

May 30, 2025 by News Staff

Polar ecosystems are structured and enriched by birds, which nest there seasonally and serve as keystone ecosystem members. Despite the ecological importance...

A composite of radio, X-ray, and infrared emission of the field of ASKAP J1832-0911. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-09077-w.

Radio Wave- and X-Ray-Emitting Star is Unlike Anything Astronomers Have Seen in Our Galaxy

May 30, 2025 by News Staff

ASKAP J1832-0911 — likely a magnetar or an extremely magnetized white dwarf — emits pulses of radio waves and X-rays for two minutes every...

This image is a snapshot from a 16-minute time-lapse movie showing the formation and collapse of a complexly shaped plasma stream traveling at almost 100 km per seconds in front of a coronal loop system. This is likely the first time such a stream, which the scientists refer to as plasmoid, has been observed, leaving them wondering about the physical explanation of the observed dynamics. This image was taken by the Goode Solar Telescope at Big Bear Solar Observatory using the new coronal adaptive optics system Cona. The image shows the hydrogen-alpha light emitted by the solar plasma. The image is artificially colorized, yet based on the color of hydrogen-alpha light, and darker color is brighter light. Image credit: Schmidt et al. / NJIT / NSO / AURA / NSF.

Solar Astronomers Capture Most Detailed Images and Videos Yet of Sun’s Corona

May 27, 2025 by News Staff

To make these high-resolution images and movies, astronomers from NSF’s National Solar Observatory and New Jersey Institute of Technology developed a...

Qijianglong guokr chased by two carnivorous dinosaurs. Image credit: Lida Xing.

New Species of Jurassic Herbivorous Dinosaur Discovered in China

May 26, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of eusauropod dinosaur has been identified from a fossilized partial skeleton with a nearly complete skull found in the Chinese...

Traskasaura sandrae. Image credit: O’Keefe et al., doi: 10.1080/14772019.2025.2489938.

Paleontologists Identify Strange New Species of Elasmosaur: Traskasaura sandrae

May 23, 2025 by News Staff

Traskasaura sandrae, a 12-m-long elasmosaur (a type of plesiosaur) that lived in the Cretaceous seas, 85 million years ago, had a strange mix of primitive...