NASA’s planet-hunting telescope Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered its first free-floating, or rogue, planet. It is a terrestrial object, likely bigger than Earth but not by too much. This candidate object was discovered within the analysis of 1.3…
Rocks that formed some 3.7 billion years ago in the early Archean have given us the earliest glimpse yet of Earth’s magnetic field. That was a time when Earth may have been still wrapped in water, and early life was only just starting to…
A federal appeals court today reversed a ruling that prevented New York from enforcing a law requiring Internet service providers to sell $15 broadband plans to low-income consumers. The ruling is a loss for six trade groups that represent ISPs, although it…
A giant 3D printer, which is big enough to make a house, has been unveiled at the University of Maine. The university says it has beaten its own record for the world’s largest polymer 3D printer – with the new…
Columbia University said Friday that it has banned a student protest leader from campus after a video resurfaced Thursday that showed the student saying Zionists “don’t deserve to live.” A university spokesperson said the student, Khymani James, has been “banned…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal grand jury issued a 16-count indictment Friday accusing a Kansas City, Missouri, police officer with taking $300,000 in donations from an anti-crime group and using the money for his own expenses. The indictment was…
A former Boy Scout saved by hero pilot Harrison Ford after getting lost while on a camping trip has told the injured star: ‘Get better soon, my family is thinking of you.’ Cody Clawson says Ford is a ‘genuine hero’…
Annette Herfkens somehow survived a crash that killed everyone else on board, including the love of her life. But the next 192 hours would be a new kind of hell. It was meant to be a romantic getaway for an…
Fossil vertebrae unearthed in a lignite mine are the remains of one of the largest snakes that ever lived, a monster estimated at up to 49 feet (15 meters) in length – longer than a T. rex – that prowled…
Because it is often assumed that fundamental behavioral differences distinguish Neanderthals and Homo sapiens, the ability to structure space within the sites they occupied into distinct activity areas is often invoked as a key distinctive trait of our species. However, this…