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New Earth-sized planet discovered orbiting star that will live for 100 billion years

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An international team has discovered an Earth-sized planet orbiting a long-lived red dwarf, providing unique insights into potentially habitable worlds. Credit: SciTechDaily.com Researchers using robotic global telescopes discovered an Earth-sized planet, SPECULOOS-3 b, orbiting an ultracool red dwarf inside Milky Way. This planet, tidally locked and likely lacking an atmosphere due to intense radiation, offers … Read more

New record breaker: Earliest and most distant galaxies ever found, discovered by JWST

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An international team of astronomers has announced the discovery of two of the earliest and most distant galaxies known. The light from both comes just 300 million years after the Big Bang and was only possible to observe thanks to the power of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The galaxies are located in a … Read more

A rare skull of an extinct ‘thunderbird’ is discovered in Australia

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Sign up for CNN’s Science of Miracles newsletter. Explore the universe with news of fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. For more than a century, scientists have been searching without success for skull fossils of the thunderbird species Genyornis newtoni. About 50,000 years ago, these titans, also known as mihirungs, from an Aboriginal term for … Read more