The Oriental Dwarf Kingfisher, known as the 'jewel of Indian rainforests,' is a stunning and elusive bird found in the rainforests of southwest India. Its vibrant colors and shy behavior make it a ...

The measuring instrument used was the MAROON-X spectrograph, which was specially designed for the search for red dwarf planets. Barnard's star is a so-called red dwarf — these stars are faint ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) A new dwarf galaxy, Pegasus VII, has been discovered in the halo of the Andromeda galaxy, approximately 2.4 million light years away. It is the faintest known ...

According to the group, this would be possible on large water planets around red dwarf stars if there are organisms in their deep oceans that produce them. The search for this is currently an ...

"The diversity of ways that white dwarf stars can blow up is much greater than previously expected." There are a lot of ways for dead stars to blow their tops. Astronomers discovered this ...

In particular, the team found an unexpected rotational motion of stars within many of these dwarf galaxies. The scientists reached these findings while studying stellar motion in 30 UDGs in the ...

Typically, black holes found in dwarf galaxies are expected to be within the intermediate-mass regime. But intriguingly, only 70 of the newly discovered intermediate-mass black hole candidates ...

Three major appearances in the same shade in three months’ time might not be a coincidence. Rachel Burchfield is the contributing royals editor at InStyle, where she covers news about the ...

Using early data from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI), a team of scientists have compiled the largest sample ever of dwarf galaxies that host an actively feeding black hole ...

BlizzCon 2026 is happening and I couldn’t be more excited! Well, that’s not true — I’d be a lot more excited if we were ...

With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular theory in the process.

One of the biggest reasons is the planet's reddish hue, earning the fourth rock from the sun one its most popular nicknames -- the "Red Planet." But what exactly gives the planet its iconic color?