The Oldowan and the Acheulean -- currently the two oldest, well-documented stone tool technologies known to archaeologists -- are roughly 30,000 to 60,000 years...
Using data from the Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope, astronomers have identified emission from two isomers of a small polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)...
A duo of astrophysicists at Arizona State University looked at several different ices and the push they would give ‘Oumuamua as they evaporated and found that...
The newly-discovered bone artifact was likely used for piercing soft materials or possibly as a projectile point.
The deep ice at Camp Century in northwestern Greenland entirely melted at least once within the last million years and was covered with vegetation, including moss...
Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the 1.8-m Pan-STARRS1 telescope have captured a detailed image of the unusual planetary nebula Abell 78....
Using the Arecibo and Gemini observatories, astronomers have detected a mobile supermassive black hole in a galaxy called SDSS J043703.67+245606.8 (hereafter J0437+2456)....
Paleontologists from Canada, the United States and South Africa have unearthed the fossilized remains of larval and juvenile forms of four lamprey species that...
The source of the 160,000-light-year-long jet of particles is PSO J352.4034-15.3373 (PJ352-15 for short), a rapidly growing supermassive black hole, or quasar,...
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a striking new photo of the star-forming region AFGL 5180.