NASA has discovered a mysterious ‘super-Earth’ planet that appears to flash a repeated signal from 154 light-years away.
The planet, named TOI-1846 b, is almost twice the size of Earth and four times as massive.
It orbits a small, cool red dwarf…
How Much Would You Pay For A Rock From Mars?
Who would pay several million dollars for a hunk of red, brown and gray rock? Well, when that rock is the largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth, there may be plenty of candidates.
Sotheby’s…
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe is no stranger to breaking records.
On Dec. 24, 2024, Parker made history by flying closer to the sun than any spacecraft in history. The probe reached a distance of just 3.8 million miles (6.1 million kilometers) from…
Inaccessible Island, located in the Tristan Archipelago, is home to a rare and enigmatic species—the Inaccessible Island rail (Atlantisia rogersi). This unique bird is the world’s smallest extant flightless bird, with an adult size of just…
A beautiful turquoise‑and‑lilac sea creature that has been kept in hobbyist aquariums around the world for nearly two decades has finally been given a scientific species name.
The modest crustacean hiding in plain sight turns out to be Cherax…
The LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the US National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded LIGO observatories. The powerful merger produced a final…
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Astronomers have spotted a monster-sized planet that could be up to ten times the size of Jupiter emerging from the stellar fog surrounding a young star.
Prior observations of the roughly 13 million-year-old star MP Mus (also known as PDS 66)…