A hot, gaseous and fast-spinning planet has been found orbiting a dying star on the edge of the Milky Way, in the first such discovery of a planet from outside our galaxy. Slightly larger than Jupiter, the largest planet in our solar system, the newly discovered exoplanet is orbiting a star 2,000 light years from […]

U.S. researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Princeton University unveiled the secret of how cats lap water and milk with elegance, a phenomenon that happens so fast it cannot be observed by human eyes. Cats are among the many species that, unlike humans, cannot close their mouths and create suction. With help […]

Scientists say they have created a mini Big Bang using the world’s largest atom smasher, resulting in a temperature a million times hotter than the sun’s center. In an underground tunnel near Geneva, Switzerland, the European Organization for Nuclear Research smashed particles inside the $10 billion accelerator known as the Large Hadron Collider in an […]