The new image of the Rosette Nebula was taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam), mounted on NSF’s Víctor M. Blanco 4-m telescope at Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory in Chile, a Program of NOIRLab. Cradled within the fiery petals of the Rosette Nebula is NGC 2244, the young star cluster which it nurtured. Image credit:

Fossilized remains found in Patagonia, Argentina back in 2009 represent a new genus and species of plant-eating dinosaur that belonged to a group called Rebbachisauridae. Campananeyen fragilissimus. Image credit: Fundación Azara. The newly-discovered dinosaur species lived in Patagonia between 99 to 96 million years ago (Late Cretaceous epoch). Dubbed Campananeyen fragilissimus, the ancient plant-eater was

Three-body nuclear systems are key to many aspects of modern nuclear physics, such as understanding the equation of state of high-density nuclear matter and the composition of neutron star cores. In particular, scattering data from deuterons (bound proton-neutron pairs) and hadrons offer important ingredients for constraining parameters of nuclear interactions. Physicists with the ALICE Collaboration

The newly-developed map of the local Universe is based on the motions of 56,000 galaxies, according to a team of astrophysicists from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam. This map shows the distribution of matter in the local Universe; it shows how matter flows, i.e. along which trajectories (thin lines) the galaxies move. Image credit:

Ceres is a key object in understanding the evolution of small bodies and is the only dwarf planet to have been orbited by a spacecraft, NASA’s Dawn mission. Dawn data paint an inconclusive picture of Ceres’ internal structure, composition and evolutionary pathway. New research shows that a crust with nearly 90% ice near the surface

Sea robins are unusual ocean fish that possess specialized leg-like appendages used to ‘walk’ along the sea floor. New research shows that these appendages aren’t just used for walking; in fact, they are bona fide sensory organs used to find buried prey while digging. Lepidotrigla papilio. Image credit: Mike Jones. “Sea robins are an example

Paleontologists in Brazil have examined the well-preserved fossilized remains of two mammal-precursor species: Brasilodon quadrangularis and Riograndia guaibensis . The findings offer critical insights into the development of the mammalian jaw and middle ear, revealing evolutionary experiments that occurred millions of years earlier than previously thought. An artist’s impression of Brasilodon quadrangularis (left) and Riograndia

Geologists from Virginia Commonwealth University and elsewhere have found new evidence of bolide impact signatures within specimens from the Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure in the Northern Territory, Australia. A surface geology map of the proposed MAPCIS crater. Image credit: Daniel Connelly. The Massive Australian Precambrian-Cambrian Impact Structure (MAPCIS) is a non-concentric complex crater about