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KELT-4Ab: Hot Jupiter Exoplanet Found in Triple Stellar System

This artist’s impression shows the view from a terrestrial exoplanet towards the planet’s host star in a triple stellar system. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO.
Apr 4, 2016 by Sergio Prostak

An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of a transiting hot Jupiter in a rare triple-star system. This artist’s impression shows the view from a terrestrial exoplanet towards the planet’s host star in a triple stellar system. Image credit: M. Kornmesser / ESO. The newfound gas giant, designated KELT-4Ab, was discovered by the astronomers using data from the Kilodegree Extremely Little Telescope (KELT). The team, led by...

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This infrared image from Hubble shows Milky Way’s nuclear star cluster, the densest and most massive star cluster in our Galaxy. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble Heritage Team / STScI / AURA / T. Do & A. Ghez, UCLA / V. Bajaj, STScI.

Hubble Focuses on Milky Way’s Nuclear Star Cluster

Apr 2, 2016 by News Staff

The infrared vision of the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope pierced the dusty heart of our Milky Way Galaxy to reveal more than half a million stars at...

SDSS J1240+6710 (arrow). Image credit: S.O. Kepler et al / Sloan Digital Sky Survey.

Astronomers Discover White Dwarf Star with Oxygen Atmosphere

Apr 1, 2016 by Natali Anderson

A team of astronomers led by Dr. Souza Oliveira Kepler from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, is reporting the discovery of a white...

The Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla). Image credit: Jack Hynes / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Western Lowland Gorilla Genome Mapped with New Level of Accuracy

Apr 1, 2016 by News Staff

The genome of the Western lowland gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ssp. gorilla) has been sequenced at a high level of quality beginning to approach that of the...

A representation of the surface of Zika virus with protruding envelope glycoproteins (red) shown. Image credit: Devika Sirohi et al / Purdue University.

New Study Reveals Structure of Zika Virus

Apr 1, 2016 by News Staff

A team of researchers led by Purdue University scientists Michael Rossmann and Richard Kuhn is the first to determine the structure of the Zika virus,...

This ALMA image shows the planet-forming disc around TW Hydrae. The inset image zooms in on the gap nearest to the star, which is at the same distance as the Earth is from the Sun, suggesting an infant version of an Earth-like exoplanet could be emerging from the dust and gas. The additional concentric light and dark features represent other planet-forming regions farther out in the disc. Image credit: S. Andrews, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics / ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO.

ALMA Captures Detailed Images of Planet-Forming Disk around Sun-Like Star TW Hydrae

Apr 1, 2016 by News Staff

New images from the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) reveal finest details in the protoplanetary disk around the young, Sun-like star...

Kaizer Hilltop quarry: step-like morphology of the quarrying front on the rocks. Image credit: Gabi Laron.

Israeli Archaeologists Discover 11,000-Year-Old Quarry

Mar 31, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Archaeologists in Israel say they have uncovered the earliest known Neolithic quarry in the southern Levant. Kaizer Hilltop quarry: step-like morphology...

A close-up look at the transparent wood created by Dr. Lars Berglund and co-authors. Image credit: KTH Royal Institute of Technology.

Swedish Scientists Develop Optically Transparent ‘Wood’

Mar 31, 2016 by News Staff

A team of scientists at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden, has developed transparent wood that could be used in building materials...

Artist’s impression of the super-Earth 55 Cancri e orbiting its host star. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech.

Astronomers Create Thermal Map of Super-Earth 55 Cancri e

Mar 31, 2016 by News Staff

Using data from NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have mapped how conditions on 55 Cancri e – a ‘nearby’ super-Earth exoplanet –...

Scientist Links Earth’s Periodic Mass Extinctions to Planet Nine

Mar 31, 2016 by News Staff

According to Prof. Daniel P. Whitmire from the University of Arkansas, the suspected Planet Nine triggers comet showers linked to mass extinctions on Earth...

This is a map of Indonesia, the green circle shows the island of Flores. The inset shows facial approximation of LB1, female Homo floresiensis (Susan Hayes / Australian Archaeological Association)

Homo floresiensis May Have Disappeared Earlier than Thought

Mar 30, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

According to a multinational team of scientists, Homo floresiensis — a primitive hominin species discovered in the Late Pleistocene sediments at...

Closeup of text on the Etruscan stele. Image credit: Mugello Valley Project.

Archaeologists Find Etruscan Stele with Rare Inscriptions

Mar 30, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of archaeologists has found a religious artifact with a sacred text in the Etruscan language. The 2,500-year-old Etruscan stele was...

An artist’s recreation of Giraffatitan (foreground), a sauropod dinosaur that lived during the Jurassic period. Image credit: Dmitry Bogdanov / Gerhard Boeggemann / Sci-News.com.

Paleontologists Explain Evolution of Sauropod Dinosaurs

Mar 30, 2016 by News Staff

A large team of paleontologists led by University of Liverpool scientist Dr. Karl Bates has developed computer models of the bodies of sauropod dinosaurs...

Left: conventional chart. Right: Moorfields Acuity Chart. Image credit: Nilpa Shah et al.

Moorfields Acuity Chart: Novel Sight Test Detects Early Age-Related Macular Degeneration

Mar 29, 2016 by News Staff

An international team of scientists, led by Prof. Roger Anderson from the University of Ulster at Coleraine and the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre at...

In this stunning Saturnian vista, icy geysers erupt along narrow fractures on Enceladus. The majestic plumes were actually discovered by instruments on the Cassini Spacecraft during close encounters with bright and shiny Enceladus in 2005. Image credit: Michael Carroll / NASA.

Planetary Researchers Explain Sustained Eruptions on Enceladus

Mar 29, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Planetary researchers on NASA’s Cassini mission have published a new study describing the process that drives and sustains long-lived geysers on Enceladus,...

Neanderthal. Image credit: Neanderthal Museum.

Scientists Produce Map of Neanderthal, Denisovan Ancestry in Present-Day Humans

Mar 29, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Dr. David Reich from Harvard Medical School and his colleagues have produced a world map of Denisovan and Neanderthal ancestry in 120 diverse populations....

HD 80606b: Weird Gaseous Exoplanet Raises Questions about Origins of hot Jupiters

Mar 29, 2016 by News Staff

New observations of HD 80606b raise questions about origins of so-called hot Jupiters, a class of short-period gas giants with a mass similar to Jupiter’s,...

Artist's concept of a cryobot in the ocean of Jupiter's moon Europa. Image credit: NASA.

Scientists Produce First Roadmap for European Astrobiology

Mar 28, 2016 by Enrico de Lazaro

Researchers on the AstRoMap project, a coordination action supported by the European Commission, have surveyed the state of the art of astrobiology in...

‘Not’ faces. Image credit: Ohio State University.

Scientists Say ‘Not Face’ is Universal Part of Language

Mar 28, 2016 by News Staff

A team of scientists, led by Ohio State University cognitive researcher Prof. Aleix Martinez, has identified a universal facial expression that is interpreted...

Brown skuas (Stercorarius antarcticus). Image credit: B. Navez / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Brown Skuas Can Recognize Individual Humans, New Study Shows

Mar 28, 2016 by Natali Anderson

Ornithologists from South Korea and Poland have shown for the first time that Antarctic brown skuas (Stercorarius antarcticus), a species that typically...

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