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Astronomers using the VLT Survey Telescope at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile have captured a stunning new image of the nebula Gum 80. The post VST Sees Impostor Supergiant Star...

Astronomers using Webb have captured the transmission spectrum of the sub-Neptune TOI-421b and uncovered the chemical fingerprints of its atmosphere. The post Webb Determines Atmospheric Makeup of Sub-Neptune TOI-421b appeared...

The new specimen represents the world’s oldest cerapodan ornithischian dinosaur, according to a team of paleontologists from Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, the University of Birmingham and the Natural History...

A team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Ukraine has developed a new method for the safe reassessment of farmland abandoned after the Chornobyl nuclear accident in 1986. The...

The new theory, developed by physicists at Aalto University, describes gravity in a way that’s compatible with the Standard Model of particle physics, opening the door to an improved understanding...

Scientists from Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and Australia have monitored multiple spruce trees (Picea abies) to assess their individual and collective bioelectrical responses to a solar eclipse. The post...

A beautiful new photo from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope shows the spiral galaxy NGC 3596. The post Hubble Looks at Face-On Intermediate Spiral Galaxy appeared first on Sci.News: Breaking...

Eoplatypleura messelensis not only represents one of the earliest known Cicadidae fossil from the Eurasian continent, but also the oldest confirmed record of the subfamily Cicadinae worldwide to date. The...

Paleontologists have found the fossils of three new fish species -- including the earliest known salmonid fish, Sivulliusalmo alaskensis -- at the Prince Creek Formation of northern Alaska, the United...

Initially interpreted as a primitive Cambrian mollusk, Shishania aculeata -- a 500-million-year-old spine-covered fossil found in China’s Yunnan province -- is in fact a distant relative of sponge-like creatures known...