Six exoplanets with sizes between Earth and Neptune have been in rhythm with each other since they were born around the same star 4 billion years ago, new research suggests. Astronomers have discovered a remarkable star system with six planets unlike any in our solar system. According to new research,Continue Reading
New COVID vaccines have been approved to guard against coronavirus variants that are currently circulating. Like the annual flu shots, COVID-19 vaccines have been getting a yearly update each fall — and we’re due for a new batch. So who should get one this time around? What shots are approvedContinue Reading
Hormone mimics offer advantages even beyond those of the potent weight-loss shots on the market now Two new drugs for treating obesity are on course to become available in the next few years — and they offer advantages beyond those of the highly effective blockbuster drugs already on the market.Continue Reading
As Cold War tensions rose, Gregory Bateson was busy observing solitary octopuses learning to live together in a single tank — and it gave him an idea about managing geopolitical relations. In October 1962, the rules of engagement during the Cold War assumed particular urgency. Soviet nuclear warheads were inContinue Reading
Astronomers used gravitational lensing and supercomputers to identify the colossal black hole, which is among the largest ever found. Astronomers have discovered one of the largest black holes ever found — an ultramassive monster roughly 30 billion times the mass of the sun — using a space-time trick predicted byContinue Reading
Watch live online as the dwarf planet Ceres swoops in front of the ‘grand design’ spiral galaxy Messier 100 this weekend. This weekend, you can watch live as the first asteroid ever discovered passes across one of the night sky’s most beautiful spiral galaxies. The Rome-based Virtual Telescope Project(opens inContinue Reading
JWST’s sharp infrared eyes reveal stunning new details invisible to previous observatories A gaggle of galaxies crackle with intricate detail in new images from the James Webb Space Telescope. JWST’s sharp infrared eyes are revealing how newborn stars shape their surroundings, giving hints to how stars and galaxies grow upContinue Reading
A mother in Alabama gave birth to rare “MoMo” twins after a previous twin pregnancy. In a rare case, a mother in Alabama gave birth to two sets of identical twins in back-to-back pregnancies. Britney Alba learned she was pregnant with twins for the second time roughly six months afterContinue Reading
Scientists detected a cloud of gas sculpted into a wonky tadpole shape near the Milky Way’s center, possibly pointing to a rare intermediate-mass black hole. An enormous, deformed dust cloud that astronomers nicknamed “the Tadpole” could point to the location of an extremely rare type of black hole never confirmedContinue Reading
The storms not only threaten people, but also sea ice, which influences the global climate CHICAGO : In January 2022, a cyclone blitzed a large expanse of ice-covered ocean between Greenland and Russia. Frenzied gusts galvanized 8-meter-tall waves that pounded the region’s hapless flotillas of sea ice, while a bombardmentContinue Reading