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‘Super-puff’ planets add a cotton candy flavor to the search for alien worlds

Readings from the Hubble Space Telescope have shed light on a bizarre class of alien planets that have the density of cotton candy. The "super-puff" planets were detected by NASA's Kepler space telescope in 2012, orbiting Kepler 51, a sunlike star that's 2,600 light-years from Earth along our Milky Way galaxy's Orion spiral arm. A couple of years later, astronomers determined...

Is Tinsel Canceled?

The polar ice caps are melting before our eyes. Artificial snow will not be de rigueur this year.Even as whales starve because of the plastic they have consumed and landfills swell beyond all reason, one age-old holiday tradition that has been hard to shake is the habit of excess.Between Thanksgiving and New Year's Day, Americans produce a colossal amount of waste, throwing out, by some...