This new image from the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) aboard the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows a tiny patch of sky in the constellation of Hydra. Behind a bright star in the lower part of the ...

In a new paper, planetary researchers from Texas A&M University and the University of Washington introduce a new thermodynamic concept called the centotectic and investigate the stability of liquids ...

On December 24, 2024, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe soared just 6.1 million km (3.8 million miles) above the surface of our home star, racing through the solar atmosphere at 692,000 km per hour (430,000 ...

Using data from the APOGEE survey, astronomers from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, the University of Vienna and Paris Observatory have reconstructed the properties of ‘hidden’ stars ...

Dubbed Archaeocursor asiaticus, the newly-discovered species is the earliest-diverging ornithischian dinosaur yet discovered in Asia, according to a team of paleontologists from China. Archaeocursor ...

A new genus and species of monofenestratan pterosaur has been identified from partial cranial and postcranial remains found in Chubut Province, Patagonia, Argentina. Named Melkamter pateko, the ...

NSF’s NOIRLab, in collaboration with ESA/Hubble, has released a collection of free, high resolution images of all 88 constellations and the largest open-source, freely available all-sky photo of the ...

Paleontologists have identified a new species of procolophonid reptile from the fossilized skull and jaw fragments found in southwest England. The newly-discovered species, Threordatoth chasmatos, ...

In a new study published in the journal Frontiers in Public Health, scientists investigated the associations between intake of added sugar and various sugar-sweetened foods and beverages and risk of 7 ...

Contradicting the results of several recent studies, the new findings reopen the case that Jupiter-family comets like 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko could have helped deliver water to Earth. Water was ...

Dark energy — an unknown energy source that is causing our Universe’s expansion to accelerate – doesn’t actually exist, according to new research. Dark energy is commonly thought to be a weak ...

Using data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) and Keck telescope, astronomers have discovered a binary star system in the S star cluster close to Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the ...