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Young Sun’s Superflares May Have Been Key to Life on Early Earth

Artist’s concept of the active young Sun 4 billion years ago. Its energy may have aided in creating molecules in the atmosphere of early Earth that allowed it to warm up enough to incubate life. Image credit: NASA / GSFC / CIL.
May 25, 2016 by News Staff

Powerful coronal mass ejection events from the young Sun may have provided the crucial energy needed to warm early Earth, according to a team of researchers led by Dr. Vladimir Airapetian of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. Artist’s concept of the active young Sun 4 billion years ago. Its energy may have aided in creating molecules in the atmosphere of early Earth that allowed it to warm up enough to incubate life. Image credit: NASA / GSFC...

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Dr. Mandt and co-authors discovered two geologically young craters - one (right) 16 million, the other (left) between 75 and 420 million, years old - in the Moon’s darkest regions. Image credit: NASA GSFC / SwRI / ASU.

Researchers Find Two ‘Fresh’ Impact Craters near Moon’s South Pole

May 25, 2016 by News Staff

A team of researchers using data from the Lyman-Alpha Mapping Project (LAMP) instrument on the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has detected two geologically...

This artist’s impression shows a possible seed for the formation of a supermassive black hole. Image credit: NASA / CXC / M. Weiss.

NASA Telescopes Spot Two Black Hole Seeds in Early Universe

May 24, 2016 by News Staff

Using data from three of NASA’s space observatories — the Hubble Space Telescope, Chandra X-ray Observatory, and Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers...

Noble gas atoms deposited on molecular network are investigated with a probing tip, which is decorated with a Xe atom. The measurements give information about the very weak van der Waals forces between these individual atoms. Image credit: University of Basel.

Van der Waals Forces of Individual Atoms Measured for First Time

May 24, 2016 by News Staff

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in measuring the strength of the very weak van der Waals forces passing between individual atoms. Noble gas...

Cephalopods Thrive in World’s Oceans

May 24, 2016 by News Staff

According to a new study published in the journal Current Biology, cephalopods’ numbers have increased in the world’s oceans over the past six decades. Giant...

Sclerocormus parviceps. Image credit: Da-Yong Jiang.

Sclerocormus parviceps: Ancient Ichthyosaur-Like Reptile Discovered

May 24, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new species of ichthyosauriform marine reptile that lived about 248 million years ago (Early Triassic) has been identified from fossils found in Anhui...

Color image of MACS J2129.4-0741 taken with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope: an image of the faint, distant galaxy was split into three by a powerful gravitational lens; by comparing the spectra of the three images (white boxes), astronomers could show they were all the same object 13 billion light-years away. Image credit: Marusa Bradac / Hubble Space Telescope / W. M. Keck Observatory.

Astronomers Detect Faintest Early-Universe Galaxy Ever

May 23, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers have detected and confirmed the faintest early-Universe galaxy ever using the 10-m Keck II telescope at the W. M. Keck Observatory, Hawaii. Color...

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, a rare disorder characterized by an unusually extreme startle reaction, is similar to Latah. It was first identified during the 19th century in Maine and Quebec among an isolated population of lumberjacks of French Canadian descent. This image shows a group of lumberjacks who have just downed a giant sequoia (California, 1905). Image credit: Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Culture-Bound Syndromes: Entire Disease Category Your Doctor May Be Missing

May 23, 2016 by Rafid Rahman

Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, a rare disorder characterized by an unusually extreme startle reaction, is similar to Latah. It was first identified during...

This Hubble image shows a giant group of galaxies in the constellation of Leo. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

Hubble Spots Giant Group of Galaxies in Leo

May 23, 2016 by News Staff

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of an enormous group of galaxies in the constellation of Leo. This Hubble image shows...

A reconstruction of Homo naledi’s head by paleoartist John Gurche, who spent some 700 hours recreating the head from bone scans. The find was announced by the University of the Witwatersrand, the National Geographic Society and the South African National Research Foundation and published in the journal eLife. Image credit: John Gurche / Mark Thiessen / National Geographic.

Homo naledi, Galapagos Tortoise in ESF’s Top 10 New Species 2015

May 23, 2016 by News Staff

Taxonomy experts at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) selected the top 10 from among the estimated 18,000 new species named...

A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus). Image credit: Tambako the Jaguar.

Invasive Nile Crocodiles Were Captured in Florida, DNA Study Confirms

May 20, 2016 by News Staff

Using DNA analysis, scientists have confirmed the capture of Nile crocodiles (Crocodylus niloticus) in South Florida. A Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)....

Emission nebula LHA 120-N55. Image credit: ESO.

Very Large Telescope Spies on Colorful Nebula in Neighboring Galaxy

May 20, 2016 by News Staff

This new image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), at the Paranal Observatory in Chile, shows the strikingly colorful gas cloud LHA 120-N55 (N55 for...

This image of 1994 JR1 was taken by New Horizons’ LORRI camera in April 2016. The feature in the top left is an internal camera reflection caused by illumination by a very bright star just outside of LORRI’s field of view. Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

NASA Spacecraft Beams Back Science Data on Kuiper Belt Object 1994 JR1

May 20, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

NASA has released new images and data on the Kuiper belt object (KBO) 1994 JR1 from the New Horizons spacecraft. This image of 1994 JR1 was taken by New...

Hubble photo of Mars taken when the planet was 50 million miles (80 million km) from Earth on May 12. The photo reveals details as small as 20 - 30 miles (32.2 - 48.3 km) across. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA / J. Bell, ASU / M. Wolff, Space Science Institute.

Hubble Team Releases Stunning New Image of Mars

May 20, 2016 by News Staff

On May 12, 2016, the Wide Field Camera 3 (WFC3) instrument on the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope captured this incredible photo of Mars, when the planet...

Southern yellow-billed hornbills (Tockus leucomelas) keep cool by losing heat through their beaks. Image credit: Chris Eason / CC BY 2.0.

Desert-Living Hornbills Use Their Beaks to Cool Off

May 19, 2016 by News Staff

A team of scientists led by Tanja van de Ven from the University of Cape Town has found that southern yellow-billed hornbills (Tockus leucomelas) in the...

This artist’s impression shows how Mars may have looked about 4 billion years ago. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.

Mega-Tsunamis Resurfaced Shorelines of Early Mars’ Ocean, Researchers Say

May 19, 2016 by News Staff

Massive meteorite impacts triggered two mega-tsunamis in the early Martian ocean 3.4 billion years ago, according to scientists writing in the journal...

An artist’s rendering of Spiclypeus shipporum. Image credit: Mike Skrepnick.

Spiclypeus shipporum: New Dinosaur Species Identified in Montana

May 19, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A new species of ceratopsid (horned) dinosaur has been identified from bones discovered a decade ago in the Judith River Formation in Montana. An artist’s...

Image showing variation between nose shape and the specific genes responsible. Image credit: Kaustubh Adhikari / University College London.

Four Nose-Shaping Genes Identified

May 19, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

A multinational team of researchers led by University College London (UCL) has found four genes that impact nose shape. Image showing variation between...

Illustration of the debris disk surrounding the Sun-like star HD 181327. Image credit: Amanda Smith / University of Cambridge.

Astronomers Find Evidence for Comets in Debris Disk around Sun-Like Star

May 18, 2016 by News Staff

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) have detected very low levels of carbon monoxide gas in the debris disk around the nearby star...

Roman coins recovered from the shipwreck. Image credit: Clara Amit / Israel Antiquities Authority.

Rare Artifacts, Coins Recovered from Roman Shipwreck at Ancient Port of Caesarea

May 18, 2016 by News Staff

Underwater archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and amateur divers have discovered the cargo of a Roman trading ship that sank 1,600...

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