May 15, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of astrophysicists has discovered a new heating source in cosmological structure formation. This artist’s impression shows a supermassive...

May 10, 2012 by James Freeman

Astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf that is more than 99 % hydrogen and helium. Artist’s impression shows BD+01 2920B in the foreground, on the...

May 9, 2012 by James Freeman

Astronomers using NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope have for the first time captured the light emanating from a super-Earth exoplanet. Artist's...

May 7, 2012 by James Freeman

US scientists have discovered fossils of the largest known true crocodile, a creature that roamed what is now Kenya between 2 and 4 million years ago. The...

May 4, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of US researchers has found new evidence that early Mars was saturated with water and that its atmosphere was considerably thicker, at least 20...

May 2, 2012 by James Freeman

Chinese scientists have discovered fossils of remarkable giant flea-like animals that lived millions years ago in what is now China. An artist’s impression...

Apr 26, 2012 by James Freeman

An international team of scientists led by Dr. Tao Deng of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences,...

Apr 24, 2012 by James Freeman

A new study by scientists at the University of Cambridge has confirmed that brains of chronic cocaine users age dramatically faster than their non-drug-using...

Apr 19, 2012 by James Freeman

A team of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, a high-energy neutrino detector at the geographical South Pole in Antarctica, has reported results of a search...