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May 13, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers report that they have observed the most metal-poor galaxy ever seen in the Local Universe, a region of space within about one billion light-years from Earth. This Hubble Space Telescope image shows the nearby dwarf galaxy AGC 198691. Image credit: NASA / A. Hirschauer & J. Salzer, Indiana University / J. Cannon, Macalester College / K. McQuinn, University of Texas. This faint galaxy, known as AGC 198691 or Leoncino Dwarf, is relatively...

May 12, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of researchers from Australia and the United Kingdom has made a surprising discovery about the chemistry of Earth’s upper atmosphere...

May 11, 2016 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists from the University of Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Western Australia has unearthed a small...

May 11, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

A team of astronomers from NASA and Princeton University has confirmed that 1,284 extrasolar objects by NASA’s planet-hunting Kepler spacecraft are indeed...

May 9, 2016 by News Staff

A team of scientists from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, Arizona State University, Carnegie Institute of Washington and Johns Hopkins University Applied...

May 9, 2016 by News Staff

Nearly two years ago, an international team of paleontologists discovered a bizarre fossil — Atopodentatus unicus, a 10 feet (3 m) long marine reptile...

May 6, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers led by Dr. Aaron Barth of the University of California, Irvine, has derived a precise measurement of the mass of a...

May 5, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new research, leopards have lost as much as 75% of their historic range. A leopard (Panthera pardus). Image credit: Joseph Lemeris. The...

May 3, 2016 by News Staff

Analyses of genome-wide data from 51 Eurasians from 7,000 – 45,000 years ago reveal two big changes in prehistoric human populations that are closely...

May 2, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of astronomers led by Dr. Michaël Gillon from the University of Liège has discovered three Earth-sized exoplanets around a nearby ultracool dwarf...

Apr 29, 2016 by News Staff

Observations of a tailless comet called C/2014 S3 (PanSTARRS), made with ESO’s Very Large Telescope and the Canada France Hawaii Telescope, show that...

Apr 28, 2016 by News Staff

Ligeia Mare, one of the largest seas on Saturn’s moon Titan, consists of pure methane and likely has a seabed covered by a sludge of organic-rich material,...

Apr 27, 2016 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a tiny, dark moon orbiting the dwarf planet Makemake, one of several dwarf planets...

Apr 26, 2016 by News Staff

Using computational modeling and neutron scattering, physicists have discovered a novel state of water molecule. Physicists discovered that water in the...

Apr 26, 2016 by News Staff

Marine scientists have found that biofluorescent catsharks, such as the swell shark from the eastern Pacific and the chain catshark from the western Atlantic,...

Apr 22, 2016 by Natali Anderson

In celebration of the 26th anniversary of the launch of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have captured an amazing image of the Bubble Nebula...

Apr 21, 2016 by News Staff

The first evidence that humans in the Swiss Alps made cheese in the 1st millennium BC is described in research by an international team of archeologists,...

Apr 19, 2016 by News Staff

A new tool called the Geographic Population Structure (GPS), which converts DNA data into its ancestral coordinates, has pinpointed origin of Yiddish speakers,...

Apr 19, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new research published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and which has been led by University of Reading scientists...

Apr 15, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from outside our Solar System, from the Local Interstellar...