The seven rocky exoplanets orbiting TRAPPIST-1, an ultracool dwarf star located 38.8 light-years away in the constellation Aquarius, are about 8% less dense than...
An international team of paleontologists has examined the fossilized remains of baby tyrannosaurid dinosaurs found in Alberta, Canada, and Montana, the United States....
A transiting gas giant called WASP-62b has a cloud- and haze-free atmosphere, according to new research.
Paleontologists from the United Kingdom and the United States have described the cloacal opening of Psittacosaurus, an ornithischian dinosaur that lived about 110...
New images of the Butterfly Nebula and the Jewel Bug Nebula taken by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope are revealing information about how planetary nebulae develop...
Astronomers using the MeerKAT radio telescope at the South African Radio Astronomy Observatory in Cape Town, South Africa, have discovered two new radio galaxies...
In a paper in the journal Physical Review Letters, astrophysicists show that a recently discovered excess of hard X-rays from a nearby group of isolated neutron...
In a paper published in the journal Physical Review D, a duo of researchers from the United States and Chile shows analytically that energy extraction via...
To reconstruct the evolutionary history of dire wolves, an international team of genetic researchers sequenced five genomes from the fossilized remains dating from...
The newly-discovered quasar, designated J031343.84-180636.4 (J0313-1806 for short), is located approximately 13.03 billion light-years away from Earth.