Was the emergence of intelligent life on Earth just a fluke? Some scientists think not
Roughly 300,000 years ago, our species first appeared on the African landscape before spreading globally and coming to ...
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JWST Spies a Giant Space Hamburger—and Maybe Planetary Origins, Too
It’s neither fast nor food, but a spectacular object called HH 30 looks appetizing for astronomers in a new image from the ...
2 space objects are traveling so fast, they might exit the galaxy
In 2011, a project that surveyed the Milky Way galaxy for exoplanets — which are planets beyond our solar system — spotted an ...
White dwarf stars may host more habitable exoplanets than expected
Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected could ...
Earth.com3d
Runaway star may be dragging a planet along with it
Astronomers at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center may have discovered a star hurtling through the Milky Way with a planet ...
Knowridge Science Report3d
Astronomers spot a blazing-fast star with a possible planet
Astronomers may have found a star racing through our galaxy at an incredible speed—dragging a planet along with it! If ...
USA Today4d
Opinion: Letting Saquon Barkley go looked bad at the time, even worse now for Giants
There have been worse moves than the New York Giants letting Saquon Barkley go, but I’m hard pressed to think of them right now. Barkley has been nightmare fuel for Giants GM Joe Schoen all year ...
X-Ray Flares Turn Alien Worlds Into Cosmic Battlefields
Wolf 359’s extreme radiation and frequent X-ray flares make life-sustaining atmospheres on nearby planets highly unlikely, ...
What Is NASA's Pandora Mission? All You Need To Know
NASA's Pandora mission, launching in fall 2025, will study the atmospheres of over 20 exoplanets, focusing on clouds, hazes, ...
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Giant planet or 'failed star?' Newfound mystery world blurs the lines
"With an orbital period of 570 days, it is a relatively cold gas giant planet," said Guðmundur Stefánsson of the University ...
High-precision spectrograph confirms massive exoplanet orbiting a low-mass star
With an assist from the NEID spectrograph, a team of astronomers have confirmed the existence of exoplanet Gaia-4b—one of the ...
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White dwarfs pause their cooling, giving planets a second chance for habitability
When we first began searching for planets around other stars, one of the surprising discoveries was that there are planets orbiting white dwarfs. The first exoplanets we ever discovered were white ...