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Image of artist from a rogue planet. Gif: NASA / Gizmodo A new estimate suggests that the Milky Way contains more free-floating planets than stars. It’s a big claim, but an upcoming mission may actually prove it. Rogue planets in our galaxy can number in the tens of billions and …

Emotional intelligence helps us recognize how our emotions affect our behavior and how we adapt our responses to stressful work and life situations. This creates more interest in the workplace than you might realize. One study found that EQ is the top predictor of performance and accounts for 58% of …

Astronomers have discovered a new exoplanet of gas giants that formed roughly 160 million years ago and now glows pink. The large pink planet is several times the mass of Jupiter, but roughly the same size. The planet and its Sun-like star live about 57 light-years from Earth. With new …

NASA is joining the ever-growing list of organizations and companies that are re-examining their naming system, removing names that are “unfathomable” and “harmful” from their vocabulary. Aunt Jemima, The Chicks, Mrs. A, Mrs. Butterworth’s, de Washington Football Team – and now, celestial objects – have all undergone a rebrand. “Eskimo …

You might not see it when you look at the night sky, but there’s a lot of junk around the world right now. Pieces of decomposed satellites, discarded rocket launchers, and other man-made debris circle our planet like a giant bubble of trash. Tracking the positions of these objects is …