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Astronomers Spot Growing Protoplanet in Disk Gap around Young Solar Analog

This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, is the first clear detection of a protoplanet in a disk with multiple rings. Image credit: ESO / van Capelleveen et al.
Aug 27, 2025 by Natali Anderson

Using the SPHERE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), astronomers have directly imaged a 4.9-Jupiter-mass protoplanet in a cleared gap of a multi-ringed protoplanetary disk around WISPIT 2 (TYC 5709-354-1), a 5-million-year-old solar analog located 133 parsecs (434 light-years) on the constellation of Aquila. This image, taken with ESO’s Very Large Telescope, is the first clear detection of a protoplanet in a disk with multiple rings....

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A selection of ‘Phoenician oil bottles’ (c. 750/740-550/530 BCE) from Motya, Italy. Image credit: A. Orsingher.

Archaeologists Find Residues of Aromatic Oils in Phoenicians Bottles

Aug 27, 2025 by News Staff

Archaeologists have performed the first systematic, interdisciplinary analysis of the composition, technology, and contents of 51 ‘Phoenician oil bottles’...

An artistic reconstruction of a female Rēkohu shelduck (Tadorna rekohu) showing the darker plumage common in birds isolated on islands. Image credit: Sasha Votyakova / Te Papa.

Ancient Shelducks Colonized Chatham Islands 390,000 Years Ago

Aug 26, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

A team of paleontologists from New Zealand and Australia has described a new extinct shelduck species from Holocene fossil bone deposits on the Rēkohu...

This image of the asteroid Ryugu was captured by the Optical Navigation Camera - Telescopic (ONC-T) on JAXA’s Hayabusa-2 spacecraft on June 26, 2018, from a distance of 13.7 miles (22 km). Image credit: JAXA / University of Tokyo / Kochi University / Rikkyo University / Nagoya University / Chiba Institute of Technology / Meiji University / Aizu University / AIST.

Asteroids Bennu and Ryugu are Part of Polana Collisional Family, Webb Observations Suggest

Aug 26, 2025 by News Staff

The new Polana collisional family in the Solar System’s main asteroid belt is the hypothesized origin of the near-Earth asteroids (101955) Bennu, which...

The fossilized teeth of Camarasaurus from the Morrison Formation in the United States. Image credit: Sauriermuseum Aathal.

Scientists Reconstruct Mesozoic Carbon Dioxide Levels and Photosynthesis from Dinosaur Tooth Enamel

Aug 26, 2025 by News Staff

The atmosphere of Earth during the Mesozoic era, between 252 and 66 million years ago, contained far more carbon dioxide than it does today and total photosynthesis...

This mosaic image of asteroid Bennu is composed of 12 images collected on December 2, 2018 by OSIRIS-REx’s PolyCam instrument from a range of 15 miles (24 km). Image credit: NASA / NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center / University of Arizona.

Elements in Samples from Asteroid Bennu Reflect Composition of Early Solar System, Study Says

Aug 26, 2025 by News Staff

The first bodies to form in the Solar System acquired their materials from stars, the presolar molecular cloud and the protoplanetary disk. Asteroids that...

Artistic rendering of Brindabellaspis stensioi (foreground) with a range of other Devonian fossil fishes; the white shark and human diver in the upper right corner represent modern jawed vertebrates. Image credit: Hongyu Yang / Qiuyang Zheng.

Ocean Oxygenation during Mid-Devonian Enabled Expansion of Animals into Deeper-Water Habitats

Aug 26, 2025 by News Staff

Around 390 million years ago (Devonian period), marine animals began colonizing depths previously uninhabited. New research led by scientists from Duke...

A reconstruction of Tavachelydra stevensoni basking on a log in a ponded water environment. Image credit: Andrey Atuchin.

Newly-Discovered Freshwater Turtle Species Survived Dinosaur Extinction

Aug 25, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Paleontologists have described a new genus and species of stem-chelydrid turtle using complete fossilized shells and associated material found in the Early...

Stonehenge. Image credit: Regina Wolfs.

Neolithic Cow Tooth Supports Welsh Origin of Stonehenge Stones

Aug 25, 2025 by News Staff

Archaeologists from University College London and elsewhere have examined a molar tooth of a female Bos taurus (cow) discovered at Stonehenge. Stonehenge....

A high-resolution image of the flare from the Inouye Solar Telescope, taken on August 8, 2024, at 20:12 UT. The image is about 4 Earth-diameters on each side. Labels of the different relevant regions of the image are added for clarity: flare ribbons (bright areas of energy release in the dense lower solar atmosphere) and an arcade of coronal loops (arcs of plasma outlining magnetic field lines that transport energy from the corona to the flare ribbons). Image credit: NSF / NSO / AURA.

Inouye Solar Telescope Sees Unprecedented Fine Details in Coronal Flare Loops

Aug 25, 2025 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Visible Broadband Imager at NSF’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope captured dark coronal loop strands with unprecedented clarity...

A group of Neanderthals in a cave. Image credit: Tyler B. Tretsven.

Paleoanthropologists Discover Earliest Evidence of Human-Neanderthal Interbreeding

Aug 25, 2025 by News Staff

Paleoanthropologists from Tel Aviv University, the Université de Liège and France’s Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle say they have found a combination...

This Hubble image shows Messier 96, a spiral galaxy some 34 million light-years away in the constellation of Leo. Image credit: NASA / ESA /Hubble / F. Belfiore / D. Calzetti.

Hubble Space Telescope Revisits Messier 96

Aug 25, 2025 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a spectacularly detailed image of the asymmetric spiral galaxy Messier 96. This Hubble...

Life restoration of Istiorachis macarthurae. Image credit: James Brown.

Iguanodontian Dinosaur from Early Cretaceous Had Striking Back Sail

Aug 22, 2025 by News Staff

A new genus and species of sail-backed iguanodontian dinosaur has been identified from a partial skeleton found in the Wessex Formation of the Isle of...

An infrared Webb image of the galaxy NGC 4141 containing the fast radio burst FRB 20250316A. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / CfA / Blanchard et al. / P. Edmonds.

Astronomers Discover One of Brightest Fast Radio Bursts Ever Detected

Aug 22, 2025 by News Staff

Labeled FRB 20250316A and nicknamed RBFLOAT (Radio Brightest FLash Of All Time), the event occurred in the outer regions of the nearby spiral galaxy NGC...

An artist’s concept of a Penghu Denisovan walking under the bright Sun during the Pleistocene of Taiwan. Image credit: Cheng-Han Sun.

Denisovan DNA May Have Helped Ancient Humans Survive in Americas

Aug 21, 2025 by News Staff

Thousands of years ago, ancient Homo sapiens undertook a treacherous journey, crossing hundreds of km of ice over the Bering Strait to the unknown world...

This year’s ozone hole over Antarctica is one of the largest in recent years. Image credit: ESA.

Earth Will Warm More Than Expected Due to Future Changes in Ozone, Study Suggests

Aug 21, 2025 by News Staff

While banning ozone-destroying gases such as CFCs has helped the ozone layer to recover, when combined with increased air pollution the impact of ozone...

Ramiro Saide et al. explored how hidden electromagnetic leakage might look to extraterrestrials up to 200 light-years from Earth, if they had state-of-the-art radio telescopes like our own. Image credit: Gemini AI.

Astronomers Explore How to Improve Our Search for Alien Technosignatures

Aug 21, 2025 by News Staff

In a new study, a team of astronomers from Penn State and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory analyzed when and where human deep space transmissions would...

This illustration depicts the interior of Ceres, including the transfer of water and gases from the rocky core to a reservoir of salty water; carbon dioxide and methane are among the molecules carrying chemical energy beneath Ceres’ surface. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Dwarf Planet Ceres May Have Had Lasting Source of Chemical Energy to Fuel Habitability

Aug 20, 2025 by News Staff

Although there is no evidence that microorganisms ever existed on Ceres, the results of a new study support theories that this dwarf planet may have once...

Wretlind et al. aimed to investigate sex-specific single lipids associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Image credit: Wretlind et al., doi: 10.1002/alz.70512.

Omega Fatty Acids Could Protect against Alzheimer’s Disease in Women

Aug 20, 2025 by News Staff

New research demonstrates that associations between various lipids and Alzheimer’s disease — a devastating neurological disease that disproportionately...

Psyche captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 290 million km (180 million miles) away in July 2025, as it calibrated its imager instrument. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / ASU.

Psyche Beams Back Images of Earth and Moon

Aug 20, 2025 by News Staff

On July 20 and July 23, 2025, NASA’s Psyche spacecraft looked back toward home and captured images of Earth and our Moon from about 290 million km (180...

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