We're now just past the midpoint of astronomical winter — that moment marking the midway point between December's winter solstice and March's vernal equinox. That moment took place at 4:11 p.m.

New US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is expected to assume the role of backseat driver in his first in person meeting with ...

White piedra is a superficial fungal infection of the hair. Several species of fungus that live in soil or dirty water can cause it. Piedra is the Spanish word for stone. White piedra appears as ...

In Trump's announcement, he touted Turner's work in his last administration as the First Executive Director of the White House Opportunity and Revitalization Council (WHORC). He explained that the ...

(CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid ...

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Vance told Fox News host Sean Hannity on Wednesday the White House has an "ambitious ... "We've known at least that they had violent criminal backgrounds. And we haven't done anything until ...

A two-page memo, totaling less than a thousand words and packed with right-wing rhetoric, threw the fate of the US economy into uncertain territory late Monday as the Trump administration ordered the ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

This is the background to the discovery of super-Earth HD 20794 d by an international team including the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the NCCR PlanetS. '"Are we alone in the universe?"' ...

A super-Earth planet that dips in and out of its ... and pick out an exoplanet's faint radial velocity signal from the background noise. YARARA proved vital in the effort to confirm HD 20974d ...