Annoyed Jack Hathaway He had one last hurdle to overcome before becoming a NASA astronaut candidate: finding time to hear the news. Hathaway was expecting a call from NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman, then chief of the astronaut office, in 2021 to see if she, too, could join the agency. But Hathaway was aboard the carrier… Read More »
A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. Every time SpaceX’s Starship system bounces off the launch pad, it releases an unmistakable roar that heralds the most powerful rocket ever built over South Texas. Its 33 engines power the spacecraft… Read More »
The Milky Way is our galaxy, but how well do we really know it? A team led by Villanova University researchers as part of a NASA-funded project has obtained a never-before-seen image of the central engine at the heart of our galaxy. A new map of this central region of the Milky Way, which took… Read More »
Gas giant Jupiter takes center stage in these two new portraits of opposing sides of the planet, showing swirling storms and turbulent cloud bands blown by winds blowing hundreds of kilometers per hour. Hubble space telescope He shot these images on January 5-6, 2024. Jupiter rotates every 10 hours, Hubble managed to image a hemisphere… Read More »
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Rats mistakenly introduced to a remote island near Antarctica 200 years ago are growing out of control due to climate change, eating seabirds and wreaking havoc on a private nature reserve with “unparalleled biodiversity.” ” Environmentalists are now planning a mass extermination using helicopters and hundreds of tons of… Read More »
The environmental impacts of spaceflight are becoming increasingly clear as more and more spacecraft are launched into Earth’s orbit. The increasing number of satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere has worried scientists for years, and now a new paper explores how the resulting crust of “conductive dust” around the planet resulting from the re-entry of… Read More »
The collision of two neutron stars approximately 130 million light-years from Earth and the unique physics created by this merger may have shed new light on dark matter. New research led by University of Washington physicist Bhupal Dev suggests that neutron star mergers detected on Earth as the GW170817 gravitational wave signal could help place… Read More »
This winter’s record warmth provided the key ingredient for a deadly tornado outbreak in the Midwest and damaging gorilla hail that hit parts of the Midwest Wednesday and Thursday, hurricane experts said. At least three people died in a tornado outbreak that hit Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Arkansas on Thursday, a day after large hail… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope detected common chemicals found in vinegar, ant stings and even margaritas around two young stars, according to NASA. The complex organic molecules they observed using the space observatory’s… Read More »
What was little more than a speck of light to the Hubble Space Telescope turns out to be one of the oldest galaxies ever discovered — and it owes the finding to none other than Hubble’s little brother, the James Webb Space Telescope. The James Webb Space Telescope international “Glass” Collaboration has made detailed observations… Read More »