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This Striking Planet Was Found By A 17-Year-Old, Just 3 Days Into His NASA Internship

Have you ever worked as an intern in your life? If yes, you might know the hectic work that you have got to do. You might have done all the jobs that were ignored by everyone. Perhaps, making coffee and hauling around boxes full of documents. But, it's not the same with this 17-year-old Wolf Cukier, a NASA intern from New York. This teenager ended up discovering something amazing just 3 days into

It’s Official: Researchers Have Discovered A Second Earth

Researchers have confirmed the existence of a SECOND Earth located in the Proxima Centauri System. The planet is believed to have oceans just like Earth and may hay host alien life. In the past, thousands of exoplanets have been discovered in the universe, but none of them is like Proxima B. Proxima b, as has been baptized, has very ‘promising characteristics’: it is probably rocky, slig

NASA Scientists Present Theory About Why We Haven’t Met Other Intelligent Life. It’s Crushing.

NASA scientists have explained in a new paper why they believe it’s likely we haven’t ever encountered intelligent extraterrestrial life — and it’s heartbreaking. All intelligent life, they argue, has likely destroyed itself before reaching a sophisticated enough point in evolution to support such an encounter. And the same fate likely awaits humans unless we take action, t

A ‘Devil Comet’ twice the size of Everest will pass over Earth. Here’s how to see it

A comet known as the "Devil Comet," twice the size of Mount Everest, is currently approaching Earth. This comet, scientifically labeled as 12P/Pons-Brooks, is a periodic comet with an orbital period of approximately 71 years and is one of only about 20 comets known to have an active ice volcano. The comet will reach its peak brightness for skywatchers next year when it will be about 144 mil

Earth-Sized Planet Made of Solid Iron Found Orbiting a Nearby Star

We can't understand nature without understanding its range. That's apparent in exoplanet science and in our theories of planetary formation. Nature's outliers and oddballs put pressure on our models and motivate scientists to dig deeper. Gliese 367 b (or Tahay) is certainly an oddball. It's an Ultrashort Period (USP) planet that orbits its star in only 7.7 hours. There are almost 200 o

Scientists have discovered a rare planet that’s around twice the size of Earth and covered by oceans.

Scientists have discovered a rare planet that's around twice the size of Earth and covered by oceans. Featured Image Credit: Flickr / Panther Media GmbH / Alamy Stock Photo Snappily named TOI-733b, it's just one of more than 5,000 exoplanets that we know about after the first was discovered in the 1990s. TOI-733b was found 245 light-years away by NASA's telescope, TESS.

Scientists Discover An Ancient Protoplanet in Africa That Is Older Than The Earth

A fascinating discovery was made last year in Algeria—an ancient meteorite that holds the potential to unlock unprecedented insights into the early stages of our solar system. A team of international scientists conducted an investigation, and their findings offer exciting prospects for future research. This unique space rock, found in the Erg Chech sand sea, stood out immediately due to i

After 60 Years of Trying, Geologists Finally Pried Rocks From Earth’s Upper Mantle

For 60 years, scientists have tried to get rock samples of the Earth’s mantle. But the geologic layer below the planet’s crust is incredibly difficult to reach. Scientists believe they’ve successfully exhumed a 1,000-kilometer core sample that reaches into the very edge of the mantle. Examining this rock could help scientists understand magma flows, earthquakes, and other geologic myst

Rock that crashed through New Jersey home may be 4.6 billion-year-old chunk of Halley’s Comet

Nathan Magee, chair of the College of New Jersey’s physics department, analyzes the recent meteorite that punched a hole through the roof of a Hopewell, New Jersey home on May 8th. Anthony DePrimo (The College of New Jersey) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Suzy K

How to Watch the Spectacular Lyrid Meteor Shower

The Lyrid meteor shower is one of the most spectacular celestial events in the meteorological calendar. Occurring every year from mid-April, this year it will be visible with the naked eye from the night of Saturday, April 15 to the morning of Wednesday, April 26, with the peak occurring on the night of Saturday, April 22 into the early hours of Sunday 23, just after the new moon, so conditions