‘Roasting marshmallow’ exoplanet is so hot, it rains metal. How did it form?

Astronomers may have inadvertently complicated the mystery of how strange “roasting marshmallow” planets form. Using the Gemini South telescope, researchers found that the “hot and puffy” ultra-hot Jupiter planet WASP-121b may have formed closer to its star than previously believed, challenging what we know about how planets form. Since the discovery of the first planet … Read more

The Dodge Challenger of Hot Hatches

There’s a line of thinking that says the Dodge Challenger is the only true remaining muscle car. The Ford Mustang and Chevy Camaro, while wonderful in their own ways, have become too well-engineered, too good at handling, and too competently luxurious to really feel like the chest-beating, widow-making, American street sledgehammers of yesteryear. The 2023 … Read more