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The Pleiades. Image credit: NASA / ESA / AURA / Caltech / Palomar Observatory.

Pleiades Star Cluster is Part of Much Larger Stellar Structure, Astronomers Say

Nov 13, 2025 by News Staff

Also known as the Seven Sisters and Messier 45, the Pleiades — an open star cluster about 440 light-years from Earth in the constellation of Taurus...

Mekosuchine crocodiles. Image credit: Armin Reindl / CC BY-SA 4.0.

55-Million-Year-Old Crocodile Eggshells Found in Australia

Nov 12, 2025 by News Staff

Named Wakkaoolithus godthelpi, this eggshell type belonged to mekosuchine crocodiles and represent the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia. Mekosuchine...

The image shows NGC 1866 superimposed with a false color image from the MUSE data cube, where the ionized shell of the planetary nebula Ka LMC 1 is seen as a red ring. The grayscale insets illustrate the different size of the ionized shells of singly ionized nitrogen [N II] and doubly ionized oxygen [O III]. The magnified Hubble image near the center of the ring reveals the presence of a pale blue star -- most probably the hot central star of Ka LMC 1. Image credit: AIP / M.M. Roth / NASA / ESA / Hubble.

Astronomers Discover New Planetary Nebula in Large Magellanic Cloud

Nov 12, 2025 by News Staff

During a spectroscopic study of stars in the massive young globular cluster NGC 1866 in a Milky Way satellite galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud,...

The new Megachile species. Image credit: Kit Prendergast & Joshua Campbell, doi: 10.3897/jhr.98.166350.

Females of New Australian Native Bee Species Have Pair of Large ‘Horns’

Nov 12, 2025 by News Staff

The newly-discovered bee species belongs to the genus Megachile and is a visitor to a critically endangered flowering plant species called Marianthus aquilonaris. The...

An artist’s reconstruction of a newly-hatched troodontid-like dinosaur among fragments of its eggshell. Image credit: Eva Utsukiyouhei.

Dinosaur Eggshells Help Paleontologists Determine Age of Fossil-Bearing Rocks

Nov 11, 2025 by News Staff

Scientists from Stellenbosch University and elsewhere have used advanced uranium-lead (U-Pb) dating and elemental mapping to measure trace amounts of uranium...

Denisovans were probably dark-skinned, unlike the pale Neanderthals. The picture shows a Neanderthal man. Image credit: Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.

Researchers Using Neanderthal DNA to Learn More About How Human Faces Develop and Evolve

Nov 11, 2025 by News Staff

University of Edinburgh scientist Hannah Long and colleagues show how a region of Neanderthal DNA is better at activating a jaw-forming gene than the human...

Life restoration of Tenontosaurus tilletti. Image credit: Nobu Tamura, http://spinops.blogspot.com.

New Fossils from West Texas Extend Known Range of Tenontosaurus

Nov 11, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, the University of Texas at El Paso and Montana State University have discovered...

Monte Sierpe. Image credit: Charles Stanish.

Monte Sierpe: Thousands of Mysterious ‘Holes’ in Peru May Have Been Ancient Barter Marketplace

Nov 11, 2025 by News Staff

Monte Sierpe (translated as ‘serpent mountain’ and known colloquially as the ‘Band of Holes’) is located in the Pisco Valley of southern Peru and...

This image of 3I/ATLAS was captured on November 8, 2025, by astronomers from the ICQ Comet Observations group. Image credit: M. Jäger / G. Rhemann / E. Prosperi.

Astronomers Capture Post-Perihelion Images of Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS

Nov 10, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Some of the latest images of 3I/ATLAS — the third confirmed interstellar object to be detected passing through our Solar System, following 1I/ʻOumuamua...

Chen et al. carried out two studies: the first, a human study assessing fingertip sensitivity to tactile cues from buried objects; the second, a robotic experiment using a tactile-equipped robotic arm and a Long Short-Term Memory model to detect object presence. Image credit: Gemini AI.

Humans Have Form of ‘Remote Touch,’ Scientists Claim

Nov 10, 2025 by News Staff

Humans possess the ability to sense objects without direct contact, a sense that some animals have, according to new research. Chen et al. carried out...

This Hubble image shows NGC 1511, a barred spiral galaxy some 50 million light-years away in the constellation of Hydrus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / D. Thilker.

Hubble Sees Peculiar Spiral Galaxy: NGC 1511

Nov 10, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1511. This Hubble image shows...

Nectophrynoides luhomeroensis, adult in life. Image credit: Thrane et al., doi: 10.3897/vz.75.e167008.

Three New Species of Viviparous Tree Toads Discovered in Tanzania

Nov 7, 2025 by News Staff

A research team led by University of Copenhagen scientists has described three new species of the tree toad genus Nectophrynoides from Tanzania’s Eastern...

Life reconstruction of Sinopterus atavismus. Image credit: Maurilio Oliveira / Science China Press.

Fossil Offers First Known Evidence of Pterosaur Herbivory

Nov 6, 2025 by News Staff

Paleontologists from China and Brazil say they have found a total of 320 phytoliths — microscopic, rigid bodies made of mineral deposits that form...

Itiner-e is the most detailed and comprehensive open digital dataset of roads in the entire Roman Empire. Image credit: de Soto et al., doi: 10.1038/s41597-025-06140-z.

New Map Reveals 300,000 Kilometers of Roman Empire’s Road System

Nov 6, 2025 by News Staff

The new map and digital dataset, named Itiner-e, increase the known length of the Roman Empire’s road system by over 110,000 km. Itiner-e is the most...

This artist’s impression shows the evolution of the Universe beginning with the Big Bang on the left followed by the appearance of the Cosmic Microwave Background. The formation of the first stars ends the cosmic dark ages, followed by the formation of galaxies. Image credit: M. Weiss / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

Our Universe Has Already Entered Decelerating Phase, Study Suggests

Nov 6, 2025 by News Staff

New research from Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea, casts doubt on the long-standing theory that dark energy is driving distant galaxies away increasingly...

Life restoration of Manouria morla. Image credit: Rudolf Hima.

Ancestors of Asian Forest Tortoises Evolved in Europe, New Fossil Discovery Suggests

Nov 5, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists from the Institute of Paleobiology at the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have described a new species...

An artist’s impression of a Sun-like star engulfing a giant exoplanet. Image credit: International Gemini Observatory / NOIRLab / NSF / AURA / M. Garlick / M. Zamani

Aging Stars May Be Destroying Close-In Giant Exoplanets, Astronomers Say

Nov 5, 2025 by News Staff

At the end of their main-sequence life span, stars similar in mass to our Sun will undergo a period of evolution. This stellar evolution is predicted to...

Preferential colonization of dinosaur bones by lichens. Image credit: Pickles et al., doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2025.09.036.

Orange-Colored Lichens Helping Paleontologists Discover Dinosaur Fossils

Nov 4, 2025 by News Staff

Lichens are symbioses between fungi and algae (and/or cyanobacteria) that play important ecological roles and colonize many substrates, including fossils....

Paracalliactis tsukisome. Image credit: Yoshikawa et al., doi: 10.1098/rsos.250789.

New Species of Shell-Forming Sea Anemone Discovered in Japanese Waters

Nov 4, 2025 by News Staff

The new species of hermit crab-associated sea anemone, Paracalliactis tsukisome, secretes and constructs a unique shell-like structure known as a carcinoecium,...