A Canadian-led team took a closer look and revealed how bizarre this 'super-puff' exoplanet is.
We've heard of super-Earths, mini-Neptunes, and hot Jupiters, but how about 'cotton-candy' planets? New observations of a recently discovered alien world have revealed it to be one of the strangest ever found.
In 2017, astronomers using...
We're going to the moon! This news comes after Canada signed the Artemis Accords between NASA and several other countries to explore the moon and beyond.
Australia, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, Luxembourg and the United Arab Emirates also joined the ranks, according to a tweet from NASA.
In a press...
An international collaboration has provided the first insights into a new type of silk produced by the very unusual Australian basket-web spider, which uses it to build a lobster pot web that protects its eggs and trap prey.
The basket-web spider weaves a silk that is uniquely rigid and so...
The only total solar eclipse of 2020 crossed parts of Chile and Argentina on Monday afternoon, December 14, plunging the region into total darkness for a few minutes in the middle of the day.
Thousands of international visitors were expected in Chile to view the astronomical phenomenon. Argentina, however,...
A video showing an alien-like ghostly figure walking in the middle of a road in Jharkhand’s Hazaribagh is going widely viral across social media platforms. The viral video was shared by a user on Twitter with the caption, “This Video is from #hazaribagh #Jharkhand claiming Creature shown in this...
Humanity has found itself within another global pandemic, one involving a respiratory virus that can be easily transmitted from a surface to its next victim simply by touching one’s own face. There’s an obvious preventative method to avoid this issue, which is that you shouldn’t touch your face, at...
Grizzly bears are doing their best to get along with people, but it still isn’t enough.
Newly published research concludes that without large wilderness areas to replenish their numbers, grizzlies would disappear from landscapes they share with humans.
“The persistence of bears near people, when we see them along highways or...
MIT Astronomer’s ‘Zoo Theory’ Explains Why Aliens Have Not Made Contact With Earth.
John A. Ball, a radio astronomer from MIT, argues that aliens might be not too keen to contact humans directly because the former essentially act as game wardens.
According to Science Examiner, the astronomer postulates that aliens are...
