Oct 31, 2016 by News Staff

Common swifts (Apus apus) remain airborne for 10 months of their non-breeding period, according to a new study by Lund University ornithologists. A common...

May 2, 2013 by News Staff

A tiny bird fossil, named Eocypselus rowei, offers clues to the precursors of hummingbird and swift wings. Specimen of Eocypselus rowei (Daniel T. Ksepka...

Oct 15, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

New X-Ray observations made with ESA’s XMM-Newton and NASA’s Swift space telescopes have provided evidence for the interaction of fierce stellar winds...

Oct 9, 2012 by Sergio Prostak

The team of astrophysicists using NASA’s Swift satellite has discovered a rare X-ray nova in our Galaxy. According to the team, this object reveals...

Feb 16, 2012 by News Staff

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...