To us humans, a single Sun feels completely normal, but our Solar System is actually a weird outlier. Most stars...
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Roughly every 114 days, almost like clockwork, a galaxy 570 million light-years away lights up like a firework. Since at...
A galaxy billions of light-years away is the most distant of its kind we’ve found to date, embodying yet another...
Megalodon, the largest species of shark ever to have existed in Earth’s history, likely had a somewhat gruesome method for...
By now, we have discovered hundreds of stars with multiple planets orbiting them scattered throughout the galaxy. Each one is...
You know how stars do. They’re out there, doing their thing, fusing a whole bunch of hydrogen into helium, shining...
It turns out that planets can live a very long time indeed. Around one of the galaxy’s oldest stars, an...
We are, by now, pretty familiar with the concept of the Goldilocks zone. Also known as the habitable zone, it’s...
The thylacine has long been considered a truly remarkable species. The extinct Australian beast was a marsupial, but its skull...
The planets of the Solar System look a lot like a family. Jupiter’s the bossy dad, keeping everyone in line....
The smallest known main-sequence star in the Milky Way galaxy is a real pixie of a thing. It’s called EBLM...
Although we humans generally have control of our skeletal musculature, there’s at least one we don’t always have a handle...