Astronomers may finally have settled the question of what is causing highly energetic X-rays from WD 2226-210, a white dwarf star located at the center of the Helix Nebula. The Helix Nebula is a ...

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have produced a beautiful new image of the intermediate spiral galaxy NGC 5042. NGC 5042 is located around 48 million light-years away from Earth ...

A team of researchers at the Bayerisches Geoinstitut has conducted high-pressure-temperature laboratory experiments to determine the crystal structure and density of the iron-sulfide phase in the ...

New research led by Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology scientists challenges conventional ideas about the habitability of ancient tropical forests and suggests that West Africa may have been an ...

As our Solar System orbits the Milky Way, it encounters various environments, including dense regions of the interstellar medium. These encounters can expose parts of the Solar System to the ...

Using data gathered by China’s Zhurong rover, planetary researchers have identified hidden layers of rock under the Martian surface that strongly suggest the presence of an ancient northern ocean. “We ...

University of Adelaide’s Dr. Ross Young and colleagues from the QCDSF Collaboration are exploring the structure of subatomic matter to try and provide further insight into the forces that underpin the ...

A new genus and species of titanosaur has been identified from the fossilized remains found in the Hațeg Basin in Transylvania, western Romania. The newly-identified species lived on Hațeg Island, a ...

This supernova event likely occurred in the Upper Centaurus Lupus association, a group of massive stars approximately 457 light-years away from Earth. Life on Earth is constantly evolving under ...

Palm trees of the tribe Trachycarpeae once thrived in what is now subarctic Canada, according to an analysis of fossilized phytoliths — microscopic siliceous structures produced in specific tissues by ...

Astronomers using the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) on NSF’s Nicholas U. Mayall 4-m telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory, a program of the NOIRLab, have compiled the largest ...

Tropical riparian ecosystems — those found along rivers and wetlands — in what is now North China recovered within as little as 2 million years after the end-Permian extinction, one of the most ...