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This image shows a group of black and gold howler monkeys roaring. This species commonly has several adult males (black fur) and adult females (golden fur) in a group. Image credit: Mariana Raño.

Howler Monkeys with More Deep Roars Produce Less Sperm, Study Finds

Oct 23, 2015 by News Staff

Male howler monkeys (Alouatta spp.) with the most impressive howling roars have paid for those abilities in sperm, according to a study led by University...

An aerial view of the bouleuterion recently discovered at the site of Antiochia ad Cragum. Test trenches reveal, among other things, a curved marble bench for dignitaries, supports for wooden seats for a general audience and a marble-paved orchestra area. Image credit: Michael Hoff / University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Archaeologists Make New Discoveries in Roman City of Antiochia ad Cragum

Oct 23, 2015 by News Staff

A head of Medusa has been unearthed by a team of archaeologists digging at the site of Antiochia ad Cragum, an ancient Roman city on Turkey’s southern...

New Horizons Captures Images of Pluto’s Small Moon Kerberos

Oct 23, 2015 by News Staff

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has sent back four low-resolution images of Kerberos, Pluto’s tiny moon. This image of Kerberos completes the family...

New images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope show the faintest and earliest known galaxies in the Universe. This image shows the galaxy cluster MACSJ0717.5+3745 (MACS0717). It is one of the most massive galaxy clusters known, and it is also the largest known gravitational lens. Of all of the galaxy clusters known and measured, this cluster lenses the largest area of the sky. Image credit: NASA / ESA / HST Frontier Fields Team / STScI.

Astronomers Discover 252 Ultra-Faint Dwarf Galaxies in Early Universe

Oct 22, 2015 by News Staff

Using observations from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered over 250 ultra-faint dwarf galaxies in three extremely distant...

This small section of the Milky Way mosaic shows the star system Eta Carinae. Image credit: Lehrstuhl für Astrophysik / Ruhr-Universität Bochum.

Astronomers Create 46 Billion Pixel Mosaic Image of Milky Way

Oct 22, 2015 by News Staff

The newly-released photographic mosaic of our Galaxy is the largest astronomical image ever created, according to a team of astronomers from Germany and...

In this artist’s conception, a dwarf planet vaporizes as it orbits a white dwarf star. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick / Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.

NASA’s Kepler K2 Mission Discovers Planet-Destroying White Dwarf Star

Oct 22, 2015 by News Staff

An international team of astronomers has uncovered evidence of a minor planet being torn apart as it spirals around WD 1145+017, a white dwarf located...

ASASSN-14li: X-Ray Telescopes Catch Supermassive Black Hole Shredding Star to Pieces

Oct 22, 2015 by News Staff

Using a trio of X-ray telescopes, astronomers have observed material being blown away from a supermassive black hole after it tore a star apart. The event...

This is an artist's impression of a rocky and water-rich asteroid being torn apart by the strong gravity of the white dwarf star GD 61. Image credit: Mark A. Garlick, Space-art.co.uk / University of Warwick / University of Cambridge.

NASA Astronomers Spot ‘Great Pumpkin’ Asteroid: 2015 TB145

Oct 22, 2015 by News Staff

An asteroid, designated 2015 TB145, will safely pass Earth on October 31 at 1:05 p.m. EDT (10:05 a.m. PDT, 17:05 UTC) by about 300,000 miles (482,800 km...

This artist’s impression shows VFTS 352 - the hottest and most massive double star system to date where the two components are in contact and sharing material. Image credit: ESO / L. Calçada.

VFTS 352: Astronomers Spot Hottest, Most Massive Overcontact Binary

Oct 21, 2015 by News Staff

New observations from ESO’s Very Large Telescope have revealed that a binary star system called VFTS 352 is among the most extreme and strangest yet...

Eastern Santa Cruz Tortoise: New Subspecies of Galapagos Giant Tortoise Discovered

Oct 21, 2015 by News Staff

There are two subspecies of the Galapagos giant tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) – not just one, as had been long believed – living on the island...

An artist’s impression of innumerable potentially habitable terrestrial exoplanets that have yet to be born over the next trillion years in the Universe. Image credit: NASA / ESA / G. Bacon, STScI.

Astronomers Say Most Earth-Like Exoplanets Have Yet to Be Born

Oct 21, 2015 by News Staff

When the Solar System was born about 4.6 billion years ago only 8% of the potentially habitable terrestrial exoplanets that will ever form in the Universe...

Arvinachelys goldeni had a weird pig-like snout and lived in the shadows of Cretaceous dinosaurs. Image credit: Victor Leshyk.

Arvinachelys goldeni: Fossil Shows Pig-Snouted Turtles Lived among Dinosaurs

Oct 21, 2015 by News Staff

A discovery of ancient turtle bones in southern Utah has led a University of Texas paleontologist to identify a new species of long-extinct, pig-snouted...

An artist’s illustration of a comet impact on Earth. Image credit: Don Davis / NASA.

New Study Reveals Link between Mass Extinction Events and Comet/Asteroid Showers

Oct 20, 2015 by News Staff

According to a study that will be published today in the journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, mass extinctions occurring over the...

This image shows XX Triangulum (center), a red giant star about 1,500 light-years away. Image credit: NASA / IPAC / 2MASS / Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD.

Newly-Released Video Shows Evolution of Starspots on Red Giant

Oct 20, 2015 by News Staff

A team of astronomers at the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam, Germany, has created a video that shows the evolution of stellar spots on the...

WASP-47 (center). Image credit: DSS2 / Centre de Données astronomiques de Strasbourg / SIMBAD.

WASP-47: Two New Exoplanets Found Orbiting Hot Jupiter-Hosting Star

Oct 20, 2015 by News Staff

A team of U.S. astronomers has made a surprising discovery using data collected by NASA’s Kepler/K2 mission: a star called WASP-47, a previously known...

Life may have begun shortly after Earth formed 4.54 billion years ago. Image credit: Hadeano.

4.1 Billion Year Old Australian Zircon Contains Graphite of Biological Origin, Study Claims

Oct 20, 2015 by News Staff

A new study claims to have found evidence that life existed on our planet at least 4.1 billion years ago – about 300 million years earlier than prior...

Scientists analyzed DNA from ancient dog remains from more than a dozen sites in North and South America. This illustration shows a Canadian Eskimo Dog by John James Audubon and John Bachman (1845-1848).

DNA Study Suggests First Dogs Were Domesticated in Central Asia

Oct 20, 2015 by News Staff

The first dogs were domesticated about 15,000 years ago in Central Asia, perhaps near present-day Nepal and Mongolia, suggests a genetic study published...

This image of part of the Mangala Valles outflow channel system was acquired by ESA’s Mars Express on July 12, 2015. The region has been subject to intense episodes of flooding, likely triggered by volcanic processes occurring in the nearby Tharsis region. Image credit: ESA / DLR / FU Berlin / CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO.

Mars Express Sees Evidence of Flooding in Red Planet’s Mangala Valles Region

Oct 19, 2015 by News Staff

This new image from ESA’s Mars Express orbiter shows the central part of Mangala Valles, a system of channels on Mars. The image was taken by Mars Express’...

A glueball is made up purely of gluons. Image credit: TU Wien.

Austrian Physicists Confirm Existence of Glueballs, Exotic Particles Composed of Pure Force

Oct 19, 2015 by News Staff

A particle called meson f0(1710) is the elusive ‘glueball,’ an exotic particle composed of pure force, according to a team of physicists at the Technische...