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Donkey hybrid bred 4,500 years ago

Hunting wild donkeys in Nineveh, Mesopotamia. (Images: Eva-Maria Geigl / IJM / CNRS-Université de Paris Even before domesticated horses were introduced to Mesopotamia around...

On the trail of cosmic superintelligences

What other intelligent beings could there be in the universe? (Image: bjdlzx/iStock) Are we alone in space? The search for signals from extraterrestrial...

Rings explain structure of the solar system

Protoplanetary disk around the young star HL Tauri. (Image: © ALMA (ESO/NAOJ/NRAO)) How did the solar system get its typical structure? And why...

Cosmic tadpole with 280,000 light-year tail flees a ‘crime scene’

This long tail probably formed after a collision with another galaxy. The Tadpole System is located 420 million light-years from Earth. That's about...

Thousands of still unknown insects in Germany

gall midge and humpback fly. (Image: C. Chimeno, SNSB-ZSM) Even the supposedly well-researched world of insects in Germany still has a lot of new...

UV iridescence on and off

Orange Sulfur moth with UV photograph overlays showing iridescence in ultraviolet light. (Image: Vincent Ficarrotta / The George Washington University) How do related species...

Once again, astronomers believe they have spotted an exomoon – but confirmation could be years away

An exoplanet Kepler 1708b may be circling 5,500 light-years from Earth. In recent years, astronomers have discovered thousands of candidate exoplanets. And from...

Star skims past another star system and in the process turns the protoplanetary disk upside down

Using ALMA, researchers caught the "invader" red-handed, creating chaotic, sprawling streams of gas and dust in the flattened disk surrounding the young protostar. Scientists...

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