When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a runaway brown dwarf escaping from a spiral galaxy. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA A newly discovered stray stellar body may be a “failed star,” but it’s certainly not a failure when it comes… Read More »
Amid widespread gaps in U.S. testing for H5N1, a type of bird flu, and with the detection of a second case among humans, scientists are turning to more creative ways to track the outbreak — particularly in human and animal feces. Scientists and officials are expanding wastewater monitoring across the U.S. and encouraging community members… Read More »
Citizen scientists mining data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered a record-breaking world and gave it a memorable nickname to match: Percival, after the father of Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books. . But in more formal terms, the extrasolar planet or “exoplanet” is called TOI 4633 c.… Read More »