Early galaxies are dominated by bright clumps, which are larger and more massive than in the local Universe. The star formation activity is strongly influenced and can be even halted by a number of ...

Archaeologists have unearthed a rare dagger dating back to the Copper Age at Tina Jama Cave in the regional decentralization entity of Trieste in the Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The ...

Weighted blankets can help to improve sleep in adults with insomnia and other mental health conditions, including anxiety and depression, but results are mixed for children, according to a new review ...

The Soii Havzak rockshelter in the Zeravshan Valley in Tajikistan contains several phases of Paleolithic occupation rich in stone tools, faunal and charcoal remains. Soii Havzak is a small tributary ...

The identification of a new hominin group called Denisovans was one of the most exciting discoveries in human evolution in the last decade. Unlike Neanderthal remains, the Denisovan fossil record ...

NASA has released a stunning image snapped by the Hubble Space Telescope of the peculiar, edge-on spiral galaxy UGC 10043. UGC 10043 lies approximately 150 million light-years away from Earth in the ...

Using a laser-based detection system, archaeologists have discovered over 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures — including a previously unknown Maya city named Valeriana — in Campeche, Mexico. “Our analysis ...

Marine biologists at Queensland Museum Kurilpa have described a new species of hermit crab, Strigopagurus fragarchela (common name is the strawberry-clawed hermit), from the continental shelf off ...

The well-studied V404 Cygni, an X-ray binary hosting a low-mass black hole, is part of a wide hierarchical triple with a tertiary companion at least 3,500 astronomical units (AU) away from the inner ...