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Nov 24, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have released a beautiful new image of part of N159, a massive star-forming cloud located about 160,000 light-years away in the constellation of Dorado. This Hubble image shows part of the star-forming cloud N159. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble. N159 is one of the most massive giant molecular clouds in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a companion to our own Milky Way Galaxy. Located at the southwest...

Nov 21, 2025 by News Staff

The Moon formed from a giant impact of the proto-Earth with the ancient protoplanet Theia. In a new study, a team of scientists from the United States,...

Nov 20, 2025 by News Staff

Using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope with data from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), two team of astronomers have captured a mid-infrared...

Nov 20, 2025 by News Staff

The ecological transformation of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has become among the most paradigmatic yet contested case studies in environmental archaeology....

Nov 20, 2025 by News Staff

The new ultraviolet (UV) images from the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) camera aboard NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN)...

Nov 19, 2025 by News Staff

The new images from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera onboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter will allow astronomers to better...

Nov 19, 2025 by News Staff

Kissing occurs in most living large apes, and likely also occurred in Neanderthals, first evolving in the ancestor to this group 21.5-16.9 million years...

Nov 19, 2025 by News Staff

Thanks to the data collected by the Colour and Stereo Surface Imaging System (CaSSIS) onboard ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) spacecraft orbiting Mars,...

Nov 19, 2025 by News Staff

Black cumin seeds have traditionally been valued for their medicinal properties. In a new study, researchers explored its potential in addressing obesity-related...

Nov 19, 2025 by News Staff

Teasing out biochemical information from ancient organic-rich sediments, notably the timing of the emergence of photosynthesis relative to the inferred...

Nov 18, 2025 by Natali Anderson

A member of the ICQ Comet Observations group has released a new image of 3I/ATLAS, the third object and the second comet from outside the Solar System...

Nov 18, 2025 by The Conversation

In his new book ‘A Brief History of the Philosophy of Time,’ Wake Forest University’s Professor Adrian Bardon proposes that our sense of the passage...

Nov 18, 2025 by News Staff

Using cryo-electron microscopy, researchers have investigated the structure of Bas63, a bacteriophage of the subfamily Ounavirinae and the Felixounavirus...

Nov 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

The exceptionally long neck of Lijiangosaurus yongshengensis contained 42 cervical vertebrae, according to a research team led by paleontologists from...

Nov 17, 2025 by News Staff

Tea plant (Camellia sinensis) is among the most significant beverage crops globally. The size of tea buds not only directly affects the yield and quality...

Nov 17, 2025 by News Staff

To determine the motion of the Solar System, Bielefeld University astrophysicist Lukas Böhme and his colleagues analyzed the distribution of radio galaxies. An...

Nov 17, 2025 by News Staff

Buff-tailed bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) can decide where to forage for food based on different durations of visual cues, according to new research. The...

Nov 17, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 4535. This Hubble image NGC...

Nov 14, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Named Bakiribu waridza, the newly-identified species is the first filter-feeding pterosaur from the tropics. Artistic reconstruction of the filter-feeding...

Nov 13, 2025 by News Staff

A new genus and species of pseudosuchian archosaur has been identified from the fossil remains found in southern Brazil. Tainrakuasuchus bellator. Image...