After a six-month stay aboard the International Space Station, a three-person female crew returned to Earth early Tuesday, hurtling like a blazing meteor through America’s heartland as their Crew Dragon capsule touched down in the Gulf of Mexico. vault. Suspended under four large parachutes, Crew Dragon “Endurance” touched down at a jogging pace south of… Read More »
Is there or was there life on Mars? This profound question is so complex that it cannot be fully answered by the two NASA rovers currently investigating it. But because of the actual groundwork the rovers have performed, scientists are finally investigating the planet’s evidence of life, known as its “biological signatures,” in depth and… Read More »
Mars may be around 240 million miles from Earth, but the red planet affects our deep oceans by helping to move “giant eddies”, according to new research. To better understand the power of deep ocean currents, scientists analyzed sediments excavated from hundreds of deep-sea sites over the past half-century to peer into tens of millions… Read More »
White dwarfs are the stars that will be left behind when stars like the Sun “die” and smolder in space as cooling stellar embers. Recent observations have shown that some of these stellar corpses may take longer to cool than previously expected. This means that white dwarfs may have a way to produce energy after… Read More »
A new study casts further doubt on the purported success of an interstellar fishing expedition. On January 8, 2014, a space rock approximately 1.6 feet (0.5 meters) wide exploded over the western Pacific Ocean. In 2019, Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb and his colleague Amir Siraj determined that the intruder came from outside our solar system,… Read More »
A SpaceX Crew Dragon ferry ship carrying four long-term crew members departed the International Space Station on Monday, setting the stage for reentry and landing early Tuesday to complete a 199-day mission. NASA commander Jasmine MoghbeliEuropean Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensenjapanese pilot Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov The two spacecraft departed the upper… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Archaeologists in Turkey have discovered groundbreaking evidence linking prehistoric facial piercings to the bodies of the people who wore them. Personal adornments, including earring-like objects thought to have been worn as piercings, have been documented… Read More »
Legend has it that the world owes something to Camembert, the French Revolution. The cheese, with traces of caramelized butter and earthy mushrooms, dates back to 1791, when an escaped priest is said to have shared the recipe with a Camembert farmer woman who welcomed him into her home. Cheese has since become a staple… Read More »
March’s new moon rises today, making it a wonderful dark night to observe the winter constellations before they leave the night sky. The new moon will occur on March 10 at 5:00 a.m. EDT (09:00 UTC). US Naval Observatory. two days after the waning moon’s conjunction to Mars and Venus and three days before its… Read More »
Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. In our daily environment there are constant reminders of the many parts of life that originated on Earth. Rocks and soil preserve evidence of ages before our own, such as… Read More »