Gamers fall into one of two categories: Those who have played Dwarf Fortress and those who haven’t. Within the former are another couple of subsets, those who couldn’t hack the complexity and graphics ...

In the hunt for extraterrestrial life, we usually look for planets orbiting sun-like stars and icy moons. But there is another possible candidate—planets circling white dwarfs, the hot, dense remnants ...

Astronomers have detected the chemical fingerprint of a frozen, water-rich planetary fragment being devoured by a white dwarf star, offering the clearest evidence yet that icy, life-delivering objects ...

In our nearby stellar neighborhood, a burned-out star is snacking on a fragment of a Pluto-like object. With its unique ultraviolet capability, only NASA's Hubble Space Telescope could identify that ...

More than 2 billion kilometers farther from the sun than Pluto, a frigid world named Makemake sports the most distant gas ever seen in our solar system, new observations reveal. “By surprise, we found ...

As nighttime settled over the rainforest of northeastern Peru, a "dwarf"-like mammal moved through the tree branches and began climbing across an artificial bridge. Its passage set off a nearby trail ...

Scientists set up trail cameras near a canopy walkway in Peru and recorded several mammal species, including a “dwarf”-like creature, photos show. Photo from J. Santiago via Santiago and Swierk (2025) ...

New renderings of President Donald Trump’s $200 million dream ballroom have provided new insight into what will soon occupy 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The ballroom, now expected to be nearly 125,000 ...

President Trump’s upcoming ballroom will be bigger than the White House. Recent renderings obtained by CBS News show that the ballroom—which Trump has been obsessing over for some time now—shows a ...

Despite the endless coverage and hype surrounding the rise of K-pop, Japan and China still dwarf South Korea in terms of recording industry size. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past ...

Vampire Survivors may not have invented its brand of wave-based roguelike survival, but it certainly popularized it to the point we've seen many other developers put their own spin on the format.

Tapeworms are intestinal parasites similar in shape to tape measures. Their eggs typically enter a human host from animals through food, particularly raw or undercooked meat. Tapeworm eggs can be ...