ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope captured this new image of the Carina Nebula, a huge stellar…
Earth’s moon might have emerged from a long-vanished ring system, akin to the rings still…
Two new studies suggest that heart muscle cells can make copies of themselves at a…
Graphene can support 50,000 times its own weight and can spring back into shape after…
Scientists were able for the first time to capture on film a process that makes…
New data from NASA’s Ebb and Flow probes was used to generate a high-resolution gravity…
Located in the constellation of Aquarius, roughly 3.7 billion years from Earth, galaxy J2240 has…
A new study indicates that Eurasian jays (Garrulus glandarius) are aware that others may be watching…
Paleontologists think that they may have identified the earliest known dinosaur, which was no bigger…
Underground nuclear tests can be detected in the skies and as a result, global satellite…
Made up of mostly bulk metallic glasses, a new type of micro fuel cell could…
One of the strangest moons in the Solar System is Saturn’s Iapetus, which features an…
Cocoons form to protect eggs and larvae, but they can also help preserve fossils for…
Using ESA’s infrared Herschel space observatory and spectrometers on the twin 10-meter W.M. Keck telescopes…
A 5-mile (8-kilometer) wide and 3,000-foot (900-meter) deep asteroid impact crater has been hidden near…
A new study has shown that elk become more fearful when people are around because…
Using radar data from NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, a new analysis of Saturn’s largest moon, Titan,…
An international team has produced a rough draft of wheat’s DNA sequence. The draft identifies…