The candidate planetary system, detected with the microlensing method, is thought to move at least 540 km per second (1.2 million mph). An artist’s impression of a super-Neptune exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star near the center of our Milky Way Galaxy. Image credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / R. Hurt, Caltech-IPAC. “We think this is a…
Paleontologists have discovered a fragmentary skeleton of a new lambeosaurine hadrosaurid dinosaur in the Upper Cretaceous Dalangshan Formation of southern China. Skeletal material present in the lambeosaurine specimen from the Upper Cretaceous Dalangshan Formation of southern China. Image credit: Wang et al., doi: 10.1080/08912963.2025.2454652. The fragmentary skeleton of a single hadrosaurid individual was unearthed at…
Archaeologists with the Vejle Museums have unearthed a 1,600-year-old weapon offering, including more than 100 spearheads, lances, swords, a chainmail as well as two fragments of a Roman helmet, at the site of Løsning Søndermark, Hedensted, Denmark. Dr. Elias Witte Thomasen uncovering the massive weapon offering at the site of Løsning Søndermark, Hedensted, Denmark. Image…
An Einstein ring (also known as an Einstein-Chwolson ring or Chwolson ring) is created as the light from distant objects, like galaxies, pass by an extremely large mass, like a galaxy cluster or a massive galaxy. Close-up of the Einstein ring around NGC 6505. Image credit: ESA / Euclid / Euclid Consortium / NASA /…
Blue whales and other baleen whales, which filter seawater through their mouths to feed on small marine life, once teemed in Earth’s oceans. In the 20th century, 1.5 million baleen whales were slaughtered in the southern hemisphere, including over 95% of the largest species — fin (Balaenoptera physalus) and blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus). Contrary to…
Paleontologists have described a new species of the extant bee genus Leioproctus from a fossil specimen found in southern New Zealand. Leioproctus barrydonovani, habitus of part. Scale bar – 1 mm. Image credit: M.S. Engel & U. Kaulfuss, doi: 10.5252/zoosystema2025v47a3. Named Leioproctus barrydonovani, the new species lived during the Middle Miocene epoch, some 14.6 million…
Paleontologists have examined a 183-million-year-old plesiosaur skeleton with well-preserved skin traces from around the tail and front flipper from the Early Jurassic Posidonia Shale of southern Germany. Life reconstruction of the Jurassic plesiosaur from the Posidonia Shale of southern Germany. Image credit: Joschua Knüppe. Plesiosaurs (‘near to lizard’ in Greek) are an iconic group of…
Using the Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam) and the Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) aboard the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have captured a stunning image of the edge-on protoplanetary disk around the Herbig-Haro object HH 30, which is located in the dark cloud LDN 1551 in the Taurus Molecular Cloud. This Webb/NIRCam/MIRI shows the Herbig-Haro object…
An international team of researchers has analyzed the groans, moans, whistles, barks, shrieks and squeaks in humpback whale song recordings collected over eight years in New Caledonia. Arnon et al. uncovered the same statistical structure in humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) song that is a hallmark of human language. Image credit: Christopher Michel / CC BY…
A new analysis of magmatic iron meteorites challenges traditional theories about why Earth and Mars are depleted in moderately volatile elements. The Bendego meteorite. Image credit: Jorge Andrade / CC BY 2.0. Moderately volatile elements (MVEs) like copper and zinc play a crucial role in planetary chemistry, often accompanying life-essential elements such as water, carbon,…
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