Spiraling

A new study suggests that Americans' political anxiety crescendos before a major election. The study is the first to examine anxiety tethered to a specific political event: the 2020 presidential election. Credit: Clint Chapman | University of Nebraska–Lincoln Researchers are beginning to better understand the toll of polarized politics on mental and physical health, and a new study published in the Journal of Elections, Public…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain While studying street gangs as part of his Ph.D. in Chicago in the late '90s, an interview with a non-gang teen helped change Rod Brunson's thinking about what his research could accomplish. "She'd figured out how to navigate going to school or the corner store without being victimized," says…

Ashley Chontos, Princeton’s Henry Norris Russell Postdoctoral Fellow in Astrophysics, was part of a team discovering that Kepler-1658b is spiraling to its doom around its aging star, providing a chance to learn more about the fate of other worlds as their solar systems evolve. Chontos also led 2019 effort to confirm that this object was an exoplanet, not the false positive it had believed to be for a decade. Credit: Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasThe impending demise of Kepler-1658b as it orbits…

Scientists have discovered a spiraling exoplanet slowly veering toward its death. The exoplanet in question is Kepler-1658b, so called because the Kepler mission originally discovered it. While the discovery of the planet itself was exciting, scientists were more intrigued by the exoplanet’s spiraling orbit, which is slowly veering closer to its star. They aren’t sure exactly when the exoplanet will spiral to its death, but they do believe that the time is coming sometime in the future as the planet’s orbit…

For the first time, astronomers have identified a planet that is spiraling towards a cataclysmic collision with its aging sun, potentially offering a glimpse into how Earth could end one day.​In a new study published on Monday, a team of mostly US-based researchers said they hope the doomed exoplanet Kepler-1658b can help shed light on how worlds die as their stars get older.​Kepler-1658b, which is 2,600 light-years from Earth, is known as a "hot Jupiter" planet.​While similar in size to Jupiter, the planet orbits its…

An artist’s concept of the Kepler-1658 system. Kepler-1658b, orbiting with a period of just 3.8 days, was the first exoplanet candidate discovered by Kepler. Credit: Gabriel Perez Diaz/Instituto de Astrofísica de CanariasThe condemned planet could help answer questions about the fate of other worlds as their solar systems evolve.An incredible discovery has been made by astronomers, as they have detected, for the first time, an exoplanet whose orbit is deteriorating around an evolved, or older, host star. This unlucky…

Editor’s note, October 3, 12:40 pm ET: Ten days after announcing a plan to cut taxes for top earners, UK Prime Minister Liz Truss’s government today reversed that plan. British markets initially rallied, but questions remain about the UK economy in the long term. Last week, the UK had its most dramatic currency crisis in recent memory. That’s on top of staggering inflation that the Bank of England has yet to significantly curb and a cost-of-living crisis. The situation in the UK sent global financial markets into a…

The James Webb Space Telescope has returned another mesmerizing view of a celestial object, and one that really drives home the scientific potential of the powerful orbiting observatory. The focus of the program's latest spellbinding image is a star-forming system known as the Phantom Galaxy, which reveals its spectacular spiraling arms in exciting new detail.The first batch of images from the James Webb Space Telescope landed in July, and the instrument has been busy ever since. It has shown us the chaotic Cartwheel…

Billionaire investor Ryan Cohen cashed out his entire position in Bed Bath & Beyond Inc. BBBY -19.63% this week, capping a wild stretch of trading in the stock and marking the latest sign that meme-stock mania is still alive. Mr. Cohen, the co-founder of pet-supply retailer Chewy Inc., developed a deep fan base of individual investors last year after he ascended to become chairman of GameStop Corp., the original meme stock. In March, he revealed an activist position…