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Hubble Celebrates 34th Birthday with Brilliant Image of Messier 76

This Hubble image shows Messier 76, a planetary nebula some 3,400 light-years away in the constellation of Perseus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI.
Apr 24, 2024 by News Staff

Messier 76, also known as M76, NGC 650/651 or the Little Dumbbell Nebula, is a planetary nebula located approximately 3,400 light-years away in the northern constellation of Perseus. This Hubble image shows Messier 76, a planetary nebula some 3,400 light-years away in the constellation of Perseus. Image credit: NASA / ESA / STScI. Since its launch in 1990, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has made 1.6 million observations of over 53,000 astronomical...

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Cacao tree with cacao pods attached directly to the tree trunk and branches. Image credit: Gyamera et al., doi: 10.1094/PDIS-10-22-2412-FE.

Rapidly Spreading Virus Threatens Health of Cacao Trees, Researchers Say

Apr 24, 2024 by News Staff

The cacao swollen shoot virus disease is among the most economically damaging diseases of cacao trees and accounts for almost 15-50% of harvest losses...

This global view of Io was obtained in January 1999 by NASA’s Galileo spacecraft. Image credit: NASA / JPL / University of Arizona.

Study: Jupiter’s Moon Io Has Been Volcanically Active for All of Its History

Apr 24, 2024 by News Staff

Sulfur and chlorine isotopes in Io’s atmosphere indicate that it has been volcanically active for the entire 4.57 billion-year history of the Solar System. This...

Life reconstruction of Dacentrurus armatus, a sister species of Thyreosaurus atlasicus. Image credit: Sci.News.

New Stegosaur Species Had Remarkable Dermal Armor

Apr 23, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new stegosaurian genus and species from the Middle Jurassic epoch has been identified from the postcranial remains found in the Middle Atlas Mountains...

Watts et al. mapped out the chemical composition and motion of NGC 4383’s outflow in great detail, providing insights into the mechanisms that created the dramatic outpour seen in this image from ESO’s Very Large Telescope. Image credit: ESO / Watts et al.

Astronomers Detect Enormous Bipolar Outflow from NGC 4383

Apr 23, 2024 by News Staff

Large amounts of stars are being born at the center of NGC 4383, a peculiar galaxy located 74 million light-years away in the constellation of Coma Berenices....

Illustrative workflow showcasing the process of comparative genomics analysis of Enterobacter bugandensis, evaluating its prevalence and metabolic interactions within the microbial community, and its successful adaptation within the ISS habitat. Image credit: Sengupta et al., doi: 10.1186/s40168-024-01777-1.

Biologists Find Mutated and Genetically Distinct Strains of Multi-Drug Resistant Bacterium on ISS

Apr 23, 2024 by Sergio Prostak

Enterobacter bugandensis is primarily found in clinical specimens including the human gastrointestinal tract. Illustrative workflow showcasing the process...

Kane & Byrne describe Venus as an anchor point from which planetary scientists can better understand the conditions that preclude life on exoplanets. Image credit: Kane & Byrne, doi: 10.1038/s41550-024-02228-5.

Uninhabitable Venus Offers Lessons about Potential for Extraterrestrial Life

Apr 23, 2024 by News Staff

Fully understanding how a rocky planet becomes habitable and remains so is a fundamental challenge for planetary scientists and astrobiologists, given...

Preparation of goldene. Image credit: Kashiwaya et al., doi: 10.1038/s44160-024-00518-4.

Scientists Create Single-Atom-Thick Gold: Goldene

Apr 23, 2024 by News Staff

Goldene in the form of gold monolayer sheets has been prepared by etching away titanium carbide (Ti3C2) slabs from titanium gold carbide (Ti3AuC2). Preparation...

An artist’s impression of Vasuki indicus.

Terrifyingly Large Snakes Once Lived in India

Apr 22, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

A new genus and species of giant madtsoiid snake that lived in what is now India around 47 million years ago (early Middle Eocene epoch) has been identified...

This Hubble image shows ESO 422-41, a spiral galaxy some 34 million light-years away in the constellation of Columba. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / C. Kilpatrick.

Hubble Snaps Stunning Image of Small Spiral Galaxy

Apr 22, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced an outstanding image of the spiral galaxy ESO 422-41, which is found in the constellation...

The JunoCam instrument aboard NASA’s Juno spacecraft imaged Io, the most geologically active body in our Solar System, on February 3, 2024, from a distance of about 7,904 km (4,911 miles). Image credit: NASA / SwRI / MSSS.

NASA’s Juno Mission Provides Close-Ups of Intriguing Features on Io

Apr 19, 2024 by News Staff

In December 2023 and February 2024, NASA’s Juno spacecraft made extremely close flybys of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, getting within about 1,500 km...

This Hubble image of the barred spiral galaxy UGC 12158 looks like someone took a white marking pen to it. In reality it is a combination of time exposures of a foreground asteroid moving through Hubble’s field-of-view, photobombing the observation of the galaxy. Several exposures of the galaxy were taken, what is evidence in the dashed pattern. The asteroid appears as a curved trail due to parallax: because Hubble is not stationary, but orbiting Earth, and this gives the illusion that the faint asteroid is swimming along a curved trajectory. The uncharted asteroid is in inside the asteroid belt in our Solar System, and hence is 10 trillion times closer to Hubble than the background galaxy. Image credit: NASA / ESA / Hubble / Pablo García Martín, UAM / Joseph DePasquale, STScI / Alex Filippenko, UC Berkeley.

Astronomers Discover 454 New Asteroids in Main Belt

Apr 19, 2024 by News Staff

A set of 632 main-belt asteroids (178 previously known and 454 unknown objects) has been identified in the archival images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space...

Ichthyotitan severnensis. Image credit: Gabriel Ugueto.

Paleontologists Identify New Species of Giant Triassic Ichthyosaur

Apr 18, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Ichthyotitan severnensis lived in the Triassic seas around 202 million years ago and might have measured more than 25 m (82 feet). Ichthyotitan severnensis....

Photographs of Umm Jirsan Cave and its interior sections. Image credit: Stewart et al., doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0299292.

Humans Occupied Lava Tube Cave in Saudi Arabia for 7,000 Years, Archaeologists Find

Apr 17, 2024 by News Staff

New archaeological excavations have revealed repeated phases of human occupation of Umm Jirsan lava tube in the Harrat Khaybar, north-western Saudi Arabia,...

An artist’s impression of the brown dwarf W1935. Image credit: NASA / ESA / CSA / L. Hustak, STScI.

Webb Detects Methane Emission from Cool Brown Dwarf

Apr 17, 2024 by News Staff

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have detected methane emission from CWISEP J193518.59-154620.3 (W1935 for short), an isolated...

A Homo heidelbergensis, a Neanderthal and a Cro-Magnon. Image credit: SINC / José Antonio Peñas.

Interspecific Competition Played Key Role in Rise and Fall of Hominins, Study Suggests

Apr 17, 2024 by News Staff

Conventionally, climate is held responsible for the emergence and extinction of hominin species. In most vertebrates, however, interspecies competition...

The Jupiter-sized planet TOI-5205b has a surface temperature of 737 K and orbits its parent star, TOI-5205, at a distance of 0.02 AU. Image credit: Sci.News.

Purple is the New Green: Purple Bacteria Could Dominate Wide Range of Exoplanetary Environments

Apr 17, 2024 by News Staff

With more than 5,500 detected exoplanets, the search for life is entering a new era. Using life on Earth as a guide, astrobiologists from Cornell University...

CMS event display of a candidate Higgs boson decaying into two photons, one of the two decay channels that were key to the discovery of the particle. Image credit: CERN.

CERN Physicists Release Higgs Boson Discovery Data

Apr 17, 2024 by News Staff

Physicists from the CMS Collaboration at CERN have just publicly released the combination of CMS measurements that contributed to establishing the discovery...

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.

Planetary Researchers Solve Mystery of How Pluto Got Its Pear-Shaped Feature

Apr 16, 2024 by Enrico de Lazaro

Pluto’s surface is dominated by the huge, pear-shaped basin Sputnik Planitia. It appears to be of impact origin, but modeling has not yet explained its...

An artist’s impression of the tardigrade species Hypsibius exemplaris.

Tardigrades Have Unusual Response to Ionizing Radiation, Study Reveals

Apr 16, 2024 by Natali Anderson

Tardigrades can survive remarkable doses of ionizing radiation, up to about 1,000 times the lethal dose for humans. How they do so is incompletely understood....

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