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New Horizons Sends Back High Resolution Views of Dwarf Planet Pluto

This Pluto mosaic was made from New Horizons LORRI images taken on July 14, 2015, from a distance of 49,700 miles (80,000 km). This view is projected from a point 1,118 miles (1,800 km) above Pluto’s equator, looking northeast over the dark, cratered Cthulhu Regio toward the bright, smooth expanse of icy plains called Sputnik Planum. Pluto’s North Pole is off the image to the left. This mosaic was produced with panchromatic images from the New Horizons LORRI camera, with color overlaid from the Ralph color mapper onboard New Horizons. Image credit: S.A. Stern et al, doi: 10.1126/science.aad1815.
Dec 7, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons team has released a series of breathtaking new images of Pluto’s surface, giving planetary researchers a high resolution window to the dwarf planet’s geology. This image from New Horizons reveals new details of Pluto’s rugged, icy cratered plains. Notice the layering in the interior walls of many craters. The darker crater in the lower center is apparently younger than the others, because dark material ejected from within...

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This image shows the central regions of the peculiar galaxy NGC 7252. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Judy Schmidt, www.geckzilla.com.

NGC 7252: Hubble Captures Image of Atoms for Peace Galaxy

Dec 7, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has produced this beautiful image of the inner parts of the distant galaxy NGC 7252. This image shows the central regions...

This image shows the Tayna galaxy, an extremely faint and distant galaxy that existed only 400 million years after the Big Bang. Image credit: NASA / ESA / L. Infante, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile.

Tayna Galaxy: Astronomers Spot Faintest Galaxy in Early Universe

Dec 5, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

Using two orbiting telescopes – the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope, astronomers have found the faintest galaxy...

Life reconstruction of the head of Xenokeryx amidalae; adult male based on the fossils from La Retama. Image credit: Israel Sánchez.

Xenokeryx amidalae: Ancient Three-Horned Mammal Unearthed in Spain

Dec 4, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

Fossil remains of a previously unknown species of palaeomerycid ruminant that lived about 16 million years ago have been found in Spain, paleontologists...

This false color image shows the minor planet/plutino 1994 JR1 (arrow). Image credit: NASA / Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory / Southwest Research Institute.

New Horizons Snaps Images of Kuiper Belt Object 1994 JR1

Dec 4, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has captured four images of a Kuiper belt object called 1994 JR1, also known as Plutino 15810. This false color image...

HD 106906b: Super-Jupiter May Have Been Ejected from Its Birthplace

Dec 4, 2015 by Natali Anderson

HD 106906b, a giant exoplanet discovered last year sitting at a large distance from its parent star, may have been kicked out of its birthplace in a process...

Photograph of the engraved schist slab from Moli del Salt. Image credit: Manuel Vaquero / Marcos Garcia-Diez.

13,800-Year-Old Engraving May Depict Campsite of Paleolithic Hunter-Gatherers

Dec 3, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

An engraved object recently found at the site of Moli del Salt in Spain and dated to the end of the Upper Paleolithic, about 13,800 years ago, may show...

Reconstruction of Xiaochelys ningchengensis in its freshwater environment, preying on a small fish called Lycoptera. Image credit: W.S. Wang.

Xiaochelys ningchengensis: Fossil Discovery Reveals New Species of Jehol Turtle

Dec 3, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

A new species of extinct turtle has been named based on a fossil from the Yixian Formation, part of the famous ‘Jehol Biota.’ Reconstruction of Xiaochelys...

An artist’s impression of FRB 110523 reaching Earth; the colors represent the burst arriving at different radio wavelengths, with long wavelengths (red) arriving seconds after short wavelengths (blue). Image credit: Jingchuan Yu / Beijing Planetarium.

Astronomers Detect Mysterious Burst of Radio Waves 6 Billion Light-Years Away

Dec 3, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers have detected a so-called fast radio burst from around 6 billion light-years away, one of less than two dozen such events they’ve discovered...

The Attenborough’s black-eyed satyr (Euptychia attenboroughi): male (upper row) and female. Scale bars – 1 cm. Image credit: Andrew Neild / Trustees of the Natural History Museum, London.

Newly Discovered Butterfly Species Named After Sir David Attenborough

Dec 2, 2015 by Natali Anderson

An international team of entomologists has described two new species of satyrid butterflies from the lowland tropical forests of the upper Amazon basin,...

A seal impression of King Hezekiah unearthed at the foot of the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount. Image credit: Ouria Tadmor / Eilat Mazar.

Archaeologists Uncover Clay Seal Impression with Name of Judean King Hezekiah

Dec 2, 2015 by News Staff

Israeli archaeologists digging in the Ophel Archaeological Park, near the Southern Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City, have discovered...

Homo erectus may have enjoyed Prunus kunmingensis peaches. Image credit: Rebecca Wilf.

2.5-Million-Year-Old Fossilized Peaches Found in China

Dec 2, 2015 by Natali Anderson

A team of paleontologists has found 8 fossil peach endocarps, or pits, in the late Pliocene Ciying Formation in Kunming, China, whose morphological characters...

An artist’s impression of giant sauropods on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. Image credit: Jon Hoad.

Giant Dinosaur Footprints Found on Isle of Skye

Dec 2, 2015 by Sergio Prostak

Hundreds of footprints left behind by massive herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs have been discovered on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. An artist’s impression...

Blood vessels from the demineralized Brachylophosaurus canadensis bone. Image credit: M. Schweitzer, North Carolina State University.

Paleontologists Find Mineralized Blood Vessels in 80-Million-Year-Old Hadrosaur Fossil

Dec 1, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A large team of American scientists has found evidence of blood vessel-like structures in the fossil of Brachylophosaurus canadensis, a mid-sized duck-billed...

Photomontage of Saturn with a false-color image of UV aurora taken with Hubble’s Imaging Spectrograph on January 24, 2004, superimposed on an image of visible light taken with Hubble’s Advanced Camera for Surveys on March 22, 2004. Image credit: NASA / ESA / J. Clarke, Boston University / Z. Levay, STScI.

Scientists Find Evidence for Explosive Releases of Energy in Saturn’s Magnetosphere

Dec 1, 2015 by Natali Anderson

Planetary scientists using data from NASA’s Cassini orbiter have found direct evidence for ‘explosions’ in the magnetosphere of the gas giant Saturn. Photomontage...

This image shows a syrphid fly, a common non-bee crop pollinator. Image credit: Tobias Smith.

Insects Other Than Bees are Important Crop Pollinators, Say Scientists

Dec 1, 2015 by Natali Anderson

According to a large multinational team of scientists led by University of New England researcher Dr Romina Rader, non-bee insects – flies, beetles,...

Nucleation of microdiamond from nanodiamond filaments which were quenched after the formation at 6,740 degrees Fahrenheit. Image credit: Jagdish Narayan / Anagh Bhaumik.

Q-Carbon: Scientists Discover New Allotrope of Carbon

Dec 1, 2015 by News Staff

A team of material scientists in the United States has discovered a novel allotrope of carbon, Q-carbon. Nucleation of microdiamond from nanodiamond filaments...

This image focuses on a section of Aurorae Chaos on Mars. Vast volumes of water once flooded through this deep chasm on the planet that connects Valles Marineris to the planet’s northern lowlands. The image was taken by Mars Express’ High Resolution Stereo Camera on July 16, 2015. The image was acquired using the nadir channel of the camera, which is directed vertically down onto the surface of Mars. Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

Mars Express Zooms in on Aurorae Chaos

Nov 30, 2015 by News Staff

A new image acquired by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC), on board ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft, shows a run out of the Aurorae Chaos region. This...

The Black Creek horned dinosaur was about the size of a large dog. Image credit: Nicholas Longrich / University of Bath.

British Paleontologist Identifies Fossil of Small Horned Dinosaur

Nov 30, 2015 by Enrico de Lazaro

A 78-million-year-old herbivorous horned dinosaur has been identified from a fossil found in the Tar Heel Formation (Black Creek Group) in North Carolina. The...

The red clover (Trifolium pratense). Image credit: Masaki Ikeda / CC BY-SA 3.0.

Red Clover Genome Sequenced

Nov 30, 2015 by Natali Anderson

A team of genetic researchers, led by Dr Jose de Vega of the Genome Analysis Center and Aberystwyth University, UK, has successfully sequenced the genome...

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