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NASA’s TESS has uncovered two rocky Earth-sized planets around a nearby star, including one super-Earth with an Earth-like interior and extraordinary density. Image credit: Canva | The Daily Galaxy --Great Discoveries Channel Astronomers using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) have confirmed the discovery of two rocky exoplanets orbiting a nearby K-type star, designated TOI-2322. The results, published on August 25, 2025, in a detailed paper on arXiv, highlight how the ongoing TESS mission continues to expand the catalog of known worlds beyond our solar system, with particular interest in planets that share characteristics with Earth. The TESS Mission And...

Many will remember celebrity outlaw Ronnie Biggs landing at Gatwick Airport in May 2001 and being immediately arrested. Having participated in the Great Train Robbery of 1963, in which £2.6 million was stolen and the driver badly beaten, he subsequently escaped prison and lived for decades as an international fugitive. Most would agree that this arrest, however dramatic, was more than justified.But you might struggle to make the same case for Graham Linehan, the comedy writer most famous for Father Ted. Yet there he was, apprehended by five armed police officers after landing at Heathrow Airport on Tuesday, as though...

Comedian Druski is coming under fire for a “white face” performance in which he donned incredibly realistic makeup and proceeded to cosplay as a racist NASCAR fan. The black comedian, 30, looked unrecognizable after he painted his entire face, arms and torso to a believably Caucasian tone — and even added some extra detail to the bit with a farmer’s tan sunburn at a recent NASCAR race. He completed the redneck character’s look with a mullet, beard, American flag cowboy hat and a pair of overalls with no shirt revealing American flag tattoos. SNIP Great, now we have Druski cosplaying...

MSNBC host and former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki devoted a segment to online speculation surrounding President Donald Trump's health on Tuesday, lamenting that "we may never know" why he "suddenly spent a week hiding" from the public. "You really can’t make this stuff up sometimes," Psaki said, pointing to the president denying rumors of his death during a White House press event earlier in the day. The MSNBC host argued Trump's response was rambling, adding, "And look, we may never know why Donald Trump suddenly spent a week hiding entirely from the American public, but you don’t actually need...

A new rankings list from the U.K.’s Daily Mail confirmed that “The View” is nothing more than a leftist daytime dumpster fire as the show came in last place based on a series of categories in its “Most Loved and Loathed” list. On Tuesday, the Daily Mail released their rankings for most loved and most hated talk show hosts based on attributes like bias, knowledge, likeability, and trustworthiness. The outlet claimed to have captured public sentiment about a number of hosts based on these categories. For anyone who has ever seen “The View,” they can already make an educated guess...

Sisters Rachel Schmidtberger and Lindsey Denny both gave birth to a son on Tuesday, August 26 at Children's Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. Despite doing everything together, from undergrad to medical school to both working as dermatologists at the same clinic, twins Rachel and Lindsey were shocked to discover that they were pregnant at the same time and shared the same due date. One of the twins, Rachel, was already a mother to a little girl, while her sister, Lindsey, said that she had begun to give up on having a baby after struggling with infertility. While both babies'...

Homebuyers are backing out of property purchases last-minute at a higher rate than ever recorded due to fears that a financial crash is imminent. Just four years ago, homebuyers were bidding up house prices and waiving inspections in order to quickly secure fast-selling properties. Today's buyers are moving slowly through the process — negotiating lower prices and obsessing over property details. And they are increasingly getting cold feet and backing out, even after signing contracts. In fact, 58,000 home-purchase agreements were canceled in July alone, according to data collected by Redfin. That's 15.3 percent of all homes that went under...

What a screenshot. Florida Woman Gets Shot After Charging at Officer With Knifehttps://t.co/Cky1Vjeqbi pic.twitter.com/OjK7qWdeT5— PoliceActivity (@Police_Activity) September 2, 2025The incident happened on August 15 in Bay County, Florida. Police in Port St. Joe responded to a call from a repo driver at at 3:42 p.m. who said 41-year-old Tikila Walker had fled while trying to repossess her white Ford Fusion for failure to make payments. Police located Walker, but she fled, getting involved in a hit-and-run at 4:19 p.m. The other driver didn't press charges against Walker, but the repo driver caught up and police had to deescalate an argument...

Democrats’ extremism continues to underwrite Donald Trump’s agenda. Since 2021, this has been the case, and it shows no sign of stopping. Rather than bolstering them as an alternative, Democrats are giving Trump the leverage to pursue his aggressive agenda.President Trump remains divisive. While his job approval and favorability ratings are higher than they were eight years ago, they remain low. According to Real Clear Politics’ August 28 average of national polling, Trump’s approval rating is 45.3%-51.5% for -6.2% net; on August 28, 2017, Trump sat at -16.9%. According to RCP’s polling average of Trump’s favorability, he is 44.3%-52.1%, for...

This is not the hill for the Democrats to die on.I haven’t written about it here at The American Spectator, at least that I can remember, but I’m becoming a subscriber to the theory that Donald Trump is the kryptonite to Saul Alinsky’s Superman.What I mean by that is the Alinskyite Left, which encompasses basically the whole of today’s Democrat Party ever since Barack Obama took it over in the mid-2000s, is built on a definite roster of political tactics and principles, and those tactics and principles are calibrated to defeat a certain type of opponent. (RELATED: Hillary and Obama...

Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, the Minnesota socialist, has seen an astronomical increase in her wealth over the past year, as a recent disclosure revealed her net worth could be as high as $30 million.A May disclosure reveals that Omar is worth between $6 and $30 million — that’s an increase of about 3,500%, compared to 2023.Omar, as a member of Congress, earns $174,000 in salary each year. So how in the world has she recently accumulated such wealth? And how does this wealth contradict her socialist-like political message?It appears Omar’s wealth jump is primarily contributed to by her husband and...

Democratic congressman Ro Khanna says the House will be compelled to vote on legislation to release the Epstein files if two more Republicans sign on to a petition he has introduced along with Republican congressman Thomas Massie. “We need just two more signatures to force the release,” Khanna said. So far, they have received the signatures of 212 Democrats and four Republicans: Massie, Nancy Mace, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert. Those lawmakers are some of the most conservative in their party, but Khanna praised their support of the discharge petition, which can force a vote on legislation in the...

Three West Coast states are forming a public health alliance to provide "credible information" on vaccine safety in response to the turmoil within the Trump administration. This announcement heralds a shift from the federal vaccine recommendation system that has been in place for decades to a patchwork structure that varies from state to state. The governors of California, Oregon, and Washington announced Wednesday that they were working to provide unified recommendations to "ensure residents remain protected by science, not politics." The action comes after months of upheaval at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, including the termination of the...

One month before lights out.As the deadline looms for Congress to pass a government funding bill, political gamesmanship is not just front and center – it’s the main point. Each side is looking to demonstrate strength to the electorate and gain significant fiscal wins. But with Democratic members seemingly attached to an oppositional doctrine regardless of optics, and the GOP looking to make hay for the 2026 midterms, rapprochement over a shutdown is far from likely.A Battlefield at DawnThe stage was set when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) publicly warned the administration that if it went ahead with a...

For years, Americans were told their only hope was to roll up their sleeves for Pfizer, Moderna, and the rest of the vaccine cartel. Trillions of dollars flowed into their coffers while dissenting doctors were silenced, families were divided, and countless workers lost their jobs under vaccine mandates. However, a peer-reviewed study out of Germany now shows that a cheap, decades-old nasal spray, azelastine, may do what the so-called ‘miracle’ experimental COVID jabs never accomplished: stop infection. According to new findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine this week, all it may have taken to block infections was a $10 bottle...

President Donald Trump teased sending federal troops to New Orleans in addition to Chicago, marking his first time publicly threatening to send troops to a red state after he militarized Washington, D.C.’s, police force.“We’re making a determination now, do we go to Chicago, or … do we go to a place like New Orleans, where we have a great governor, Jeff Landry, who wants us to come in and straighten out a very nice section of this country that’s become quite, you know, quite tough, quite bad,” Trump told reporters during a Wednesday bilateral meeting with Polish President Karol Nawrocki.Trump...

The Dodge Charger EV does not have an exhaust; it is an electric car. It may sometimes make noises like it does, but it doesn’t, and that can make it awkward when a police officer pulls you over for allegedly creating a public nuisance with a “super loud” muffler—just as one state trooper did to a Charger EV owner named Mike earlier this summer in Minnesota. We got in touch with Mike He was stopped at an intersection, “about eight cars deep,” and when the light turned green, he said the lead car “peeled away loud as hell.” “I was...

The Gallup survey found an increase of nearly 30 points in the second quarter of the year and is now at 46%.The percentage of federal employees working in office in Washington, D.C., has significantly increased since President Trump's return-to-office order but still remains below 50%, according to a survey released Wednesday. After Trump returned to office in 2025, his administration ended remote work for most federal employees. As a result, the number of federal employees working in a flexible hybrid work model plummeted from 61% in late 2024 to 28% in the latest data from the second quarter of...

The president of the leading cocaine producer in the world said Wednesday morning that the U.S. strike on a Tren de Aragua drug trafficking vessel Tuesday was tantamount to “murder.” Colombian President Gustavo Petro said, in in a post translated by the Daily Caller News Foundation, that the pilots of the boat were likely “poor young people” and that the killing was unjust because the transporters weren’t the “big narcos.” Colombia is not only the world’s largest exporter of cocaine, but also plays host to some of Latin America’s most vicious cartels and militias. “We have been capturing civilians who...

Three major Eastern powers met in China this week and vowed to increase collaboration as part of a broader challenge to Western supremacy in the already-emerging multipolar world.While western media framed the event as more proof of the Trump administration’s ineptitude, Russian media heralded it as “one of the defining political events of 2025.” The 25th annual Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit was held in Tianjin, China, this year. The heads of Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Belarus, and other Central Asian and Caucasus states also attended.The multi-day event began with the Chinese, Russian, and Indian heads of states embracing, a gesture...