WD 1856+534b—a freezing world with a surface temperature of -125 degrees Fahrenheit—exists where planets are normally scoured ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.

Ever since those two mushroom clouds darkened the skies above the fiery hell that was Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the world’s two ...

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The Soviet Union launched the spacecraft known as Kosmos-482 in 1972, one of a series of Venus missions. But it never made it ...

Over the past decade or so, astronomers have speculated about the characteristics of rogue planets in the Milky Way galaxy.

A planet circling at a sharp 90-degree angle to the orbits of its two host stars has now been confirmed. This discovery ...

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A study of over 8,000 articles in top economics journals finds that authors with Chinese surnames are 14% less likely to be ...

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Before the Empire finished the Death Star, its lies destroyed societies. We're living through our version of that.