Astronomers have discovered a distant exoplanet with a tail that stretches over 5.5 million miles long. Credit: Jose-Luis Olivares / MIT illustration Astronomers have accidentally found a planet ...

A new study from Tel Aviv University reveals that the greater mouse-tailed bat (Rhinopoma microphyllum) uses its long tail as a natural tactile sensor to navigate backward in dark caves.

And as it decays, it is leaving behind a tail of matter like a comet. The planet BD+05 4868 A is located 140 light-years away, and is around the mass of Mercury. Unlike Mercury, though ...

While some animals like mammals have a limited ability to regenerate lost tissues, planarians can be cut roughly in half and regenerate either an entire head or entire tail, depending on which ...

I’ve used my fair share of PTZ cameras over the years, but the Obsbot Tail 2 is the first one that made me pause and think, “Wow, this might actually replace having someone behind the lens.” ...

A man in his 60s is dead after a crash in Otter Tail County on Sunday evening. Around 5:05 p.m., a Honda Accent was heading northbound on Highway 78 in Otter Tail Township when the vehicle drove ...

But this little world is unique in the extent of this process; it has the longest tail of any such planet. Yes, these worlds form a comet-like tail of materials evaporating away, and this one is ...

Astronomers have discovered a doomed, disintegrating planet with a comet-like tail that is shedding a Mount Everest's worth of material each time it orbits its star. The small, rocky world—given ...

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have spotted a small rocky planet that orbits perilously close to its host star disintegrating as its surface is vaporised by stellar heat, trailed by a comet-like tail of ...

A disintegrating planet orbits a giant star. “The extent of the tail is gargantuan, stretching up to 9 million kilometers long,” says Marc Hon, a postdoc in MIT’s Kavli Institute for ...

Astronomers have spotted a first-of-its-kind rapidly crumbling planet outside the Solar System that is leaving behind a “gargantuan” comet-like tail of debris. It is so close to its star that ...