A planet recently scored 0.836 on the habitability index, slightly higher than Earth, using factors like orbit shape, rockiness, and atmospheric energy absorption. Prop 50 California results so far ...
An international team of researchers has just revealed the existence of three Earth-sized planets in the binary stellar system TOI-2267 located about 190 light-years away. This discovery, published in ...
An artistic rendering of a dust and gas disk encircling the young exoplanet, CT Cha b, 625 light-years from Earth. Full image, annotation, and caption shown below. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, ...
In September 2023, when Chiron briefly crossed in front of a distant star from Earth's point of view, the Pico dos Dias Observatory in Brazil detected tiny, repeated dips in the star's light. When the ...
The discovery of a possible "super-Earth" less than 20 light-years from our own planet is offering scientists new hope in the hunt for other worlds that could harbor life, according to an ...
An international team of scientists, including researchers at Penn State, dubbed the exoplanet, named GJ 251 c, a “super-Earth” as data suggest it has a rocky composition similar to Earth and is ...
An international team of researchers led by scientists from Penn State University has announced the detection of a ‘super Earth’ rocky exoplanet orbiting within its star’s habitable zone, where liquid ...
How do we define slurs like the N-word? Whether it’s heated debates about racist or ableist slurs, arguments about gender, or even new kinds of profanity, dictionary editors have been at the center of ...
Nia DaCosta is difficult to define. A Black woman director who has established herself as a big-budget filmmaker, in her still early career, she’s creatively moved through genres and worked on ...
This was instrumental in drumming up support for US intervention, publicly and in Congress, which narrowly passed the vote to get involved. Then–President George H. W. Bush himself often cited the ...
"This finding is the first direct evidence of water’s interstellar journey from clouds to the materials that form planetary systems — unchanged and intact." The first-ever detection of heavy water in ...