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In celebration of its upcoming 25th anniversary, NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has revisited the famous pillars, providing astronomers with a sharper...

An international team of astronomers led by Dr Guillermo Torres of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics has discovered eight new extrasolar...

A team of genetic researchers headed by Dr Joao Pedro de Magalhaes from the University of Liverpool, UK, has sequenced the genome of the mysterious bowhead...

Dr Soren Meibom, an astronomer with the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, and his colleagues from Germany and the United States say they can...

Astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope have obtained a remarkable new view of a globular cluster called NGC 6535. NGC 6535. Image credit: ESA...

A team of scientists led by Dr Stephen Donnellan of the University of Adelaide has described a new species of Varanus lizard from the Dampier Peninsula,...

Here’s a list of the top dinosaur and fossil finds of 2014, from a small cat-sized dinosaur to the most complete giant titanosaur yet discovered...

A team of researchers co-led by Prof Adam Frost from the University of Utah and the University of California, Prof Onn Brandman of Stanford University,...

A cryptic species of treehunter from northeastern Brazil, a small passerine bird from the Brazilian state Bahia and two tiny birds from Indonesia are among...

The newly-discovered species of fanged frog, Limnonectes larvaepartus, from the Indonesian island of Sulawesi is the only frog known that gives direct...

Scientists at the Wildlife Conservation Society have released their favorite camera-trap pictures of 2014. They use camera traps as a non-invasive tool...

Landing of the European Space Agency’s Philae probe on a comet known as 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko has been named Breakthrough of the Year for 2014....

According to a new analysis of twenty-year-old data from NASA’s Magellan spacecraft, mountainous regions in the Venus’ highlands are covered in an...

According to a new study led by Dr Kevin Baines of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, the reddish color of the Great Red Spot on Jupiter...

NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope has obtained an infrared image of the Horsehead, a famous dark nebula in the constellation of Orion. The famous Horsehead...

NASA’s spacecraft orbiting Mars has snapped wintry-looking pictures of the planet’s surface, showing the slopes of an impact crater dusted with...

A team of astronomers using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the edge-on lenticular galaxy IC 335. This Hubble image shows the...

Six clay seals found at the archaeological site of Khirbet Summeily in Israel offer evidence that supports the existence of Biblical Kings David and Solomon,...

Archaeologists have found a Paleolithic stone flake in the ancient deposits of the Gediz River, revealing that human ancestors passed through the gateway...