23+ hour, 44+ min ago   (290+ words) More than 6,000 exoplanets have been confirmed in the Milky Way, including terrestrial worlds that may be composed mainly of rock and metal. The NASA Exoplanet Archive listed 6,366 confirmed planets as of September 11, 2026, along with thousands of additional candidates awaiting verification....

6+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1529+ words) The village of Kenesaw can be seen to the south on Sunday morning from this vantage point on top of the K-Dike structure along Smith Way north of town. The dike, which protects Kenesaw from flooding from the north, is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (747+ words) By CHRIS MELORE, US DEPUTY SCIENCE EDITOR Scientists are warning that a sudden solar storm could lead to chaos on roadways throughout the US, as self-driving cars suffer a potentially fatal flaw to their GPS systems. A team of researchers…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (639+ words) On July 23, 2026, astronomers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison announced the confirmation of GJ 523b, an unusually dense mega-Earth first detected in data from NASA’s TESS telescope. GJ 523b is 2.5 times the diameter of Earth. Some super-Earths can be that large, but…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (407+ words) Super-Earth Gl 514 b Faces Extreme Feast-or-Famine Climates Labroots Super-Earth Gl 514 b Faces Extreme Feast-or-Famine Climates What type of climates does exoplanets experience, and how could this influence their potential habitability? This is what a recent study published in The Planetary…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (695+ words) Search everything on the Massey website — from fees to study information or people Following the success of the inaugural Food Innovation Youth Summit earlier this year, planning is underway for an expanded programme in January 2027, with two summits providing Year…...

2+ week, 1+ day ago   (1319+ words) Blue Earth Area schools welcomed 13 new teachers for the 2026-2027 school year. The new teachers are pictured above, top row left to right, Tiegan Huntley, Patti Strukel, Kayla Saindon, Kayce Redican, Maria Rodriguez, Kris Viesselman, Gretchen Hillescheim. Bottom row, James Miller,…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (970+ words) To accelerate adoption of coding agents, IMDEX dedicated a full month to hands-on Cursor training and experimentation. Internally referred to as "AI July", this program combined structured learning with applied product work so developers could build agentic workflows into their…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (723+ words) Astronomers have discovered a massive rocky exoplanet with extreme density and a bizarre tilted orbit around a nearby star. Astronomers have found Gliese 523b, a bizarre exoplanet that combines a huge size, extreme density and a highly unusual orbit around its…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (384+ words) University of Wisconsin–Madison researchers used TESS, WIYN, and JWST to confirm GJ 523b defies gas-giant formation thresholds The core numbers paint a picture that current formation models struggle to explain. Straight from the preprint submitted to The Astronomical Journal: In…...