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Found: Planet with no sun. An international team of astronomers has discovered an exotic young planet that is not orbiting a star. This free-floating planet, dubbed PSO J318.5-22, is just 80 light-years away from Earth and has a mass only…
Get outside tonight, October 8, 2013! The draconid meteor shower begins tonight. Draconids is generally more faint, they’re slower-moving meteors, so the light trails linger. In 1933 and 1946, the shower produced thousands of meteors an hour. Two years ago,…
Forester Max Millan Jr. of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR) stumbled upon the world’s largest flower, Rafflesia manillana, while doing a biological survey in the thick forests of the Sierra Madre mountains in Aurora, Philippines. Millan, together…
The highest mountain in North America, Mount Mckinley, was known to be 22,320 feet high. But according to the recent mapping results, Mount McKinley is only 20,237 feet. “That’s 83 feet shorter than we thought,” Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell said…
John Schulz , Public Information Officer of the Larimer County Sheriff’s office in Colorado, said a series of dams overflowed and one broke overnight, killing one, and threatening hundreds more. Heavy rains that sent walls of water crashing down mountainsides…
Monday, Sept. 9 at 8:18 PM Central Time, a baseball size meteor entered Earth’s atmosphere above Alabama, moving southwest at a speed of 76,000 miles per hour. At such speeds, fragile cometary material will not last long. Just 3 seconds…
A scientist who discovered the world’s biggest volcano — an underwater plateau in the Pacific Ocean about the size of New Mexico — has named it after Texas A&M, the university where he taught for nearly three decades. William Sager,…
A fireball outshines the moon in the predawn hours of Aug. 28 as the meteor makes a streak on the skies. “Recorded by all six NASA cameras in the Southeast, this fireball was one of the brightest observed by the…
Early Sunday morning, first-time gator hunter Rob Trammell and his wife Beth, had a surprise of a lifetime when they caught one of the largest gators on record at 13 feet 5.5 inches and 723.5 pounds. The couple was among…
For all stargazers, the Aurigid meteor shower will have its peak on Sunday. The Aurigids (AUR) are first seen on August 29th and peak on Sunday morning September 1st. On the morning of maximum activity, the radiant will be located…