Using the NIRCam and MIRI instruments onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have produced a high-resolution image of Herbig-Haro object 49/50 (HH 49/50), which is located ...

NASA has released a beautiful new image snapped by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope of the ‘flocculent’ spiral galaxy NGC 5530. NGC 5530 is located approximately 40 million light-years away in the ...

Proxima Centauri is a red dwarf star located about 4.24 light-years away in the constellation of Centaurus. Discovered in 1915 by Scottish astronomer Robert Innes, the star is not visible to the naked ...

A cryptic new species of the honeyeater genus Myzomela has been described by an international team of ornithologists from Malaysia, India, the United Kingdom and the United States. Myzomela is the ...

The Lambda-CDM (ΛCDM) model has been the foundation of modern cosmology for some time now, successfully describing large-scale structures in the Universe. It proposes that 95% of the cosmos is ...

Named Jeholia longchengi, the new species lived approximately 125 million years ago (Early Cretaceous epoch). The scorpion’s fossilized remains were recovered from dark gray mudstones of the Yixian ...

Organometallic molecules consist of a metal ion surrounded by a carbon-based framework. They are relatively common for early actinide elements like uranium but are scarcely known for later actinides.

“The Universe never ceases to amaze and surprise us,” said Dr. Arjun Dey, NOIRLab’s DESI Project Scientist and Mid-Scale Observatories’ associate director for strategic initiatives. “By revealing the ...

University of Leicester paleontologists Sarah Gabbott and Jan Zalasiewicz have published a new book on how all the different kinds of so-called technofossils — such as plastic bottles, patios, mobile ...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have detected oxygen in the most distant confirmed galaxy ever found, JADES-GS-z14-0. This detection, made by two different ...

On March 12, 2025, Hera — ESA’s first Space Safety mission — came to within 5,000 km of the surface of Mars and 1,000 km of Deimos. While performing the flyby, the spacecraft made the first use of its ...

Astronomers using the Near-Infrared Camera (NIRCam) onboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope have captured coronagraphic images of the HR 8799 and 51 Eridani planetary systems. These ...