Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Imagine a completely barren world. Before you is a volcanic landscape devoid of flora and fauna. There are shallow water bodies scattered across this gray and black wide area. In each of these natural pools,… Read More »
Katrina Cornish spends her days growing dandelions and desert shrubs. She collects the flexible rubber materials they produce and uses special machines to soak them into condoms, medical gloves and parts of tracheal tubes. And she thinks these products could change the landscape of agriculture in the United States forever. Cornish, a professor at Ohio… Read More »
How can you tell the difference between a spaceship and a space rock? For astronomers like me, this question turns out to be misleading; It was so misleading that we were almost fooled when it was named after the first recorded interstellar object. ‘OumuamuaIt was spotted passing through the inner solar system in 2017. Astronomers… Read More »
Space.com is out with a special magazine that guides you through all the information you’ll need to safely view and enjoy the most exciting astronomical event of 2024: the total solar eclipse that will sweep across the United States on April 8. It’s currently on sale and you can buy it here via Magazines Direct.… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Water molecules have been detected on the surface of asteroids for the first time, proving that these remnants from the formation of our solar system are not just dried out space rocks. Astronomers believe that… Read More »
Researchers have found that record-warm seawater has killed more than three-quarters of the human-farmed corals that scientists have planted in the Florida Keys in recent years to support a threatened species that is highly vulnerable to climate change. Researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration returned to five reefs this week to plant staghorn… Read More »
Titan’s subsurface ocean and similar oceans inside other outer icy moons solar systemmay not have the organic chemistry required for lifeaccording to new astrobiological research. Titan Saturn‘s largest moon and the second largest moon in the entire solar system. It is famous for being covered in a smog of petrochemicals and having a veritable soup… Read More »
People born in the future will inherit a planet in the midst of a global ecological crisis. Natural habitats are being destroyed, the world is getting warmer, and scientists fear we are experiencing the sixth mass extinction event in Earth history. In this case, does it make sense to bring a child into the world?… Read More »
A potentially history-making special lunar mission is underway. Odysseus, the robotic lunar lander built by Houston-based company Intuitive Machines, lifted off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida early this morning (February 15). If all goes as planned, Odysseus will land near the Moon’s south pole on February… Read More »
A technology used to protect the first astronauts to land on the moon is now returning to the lunar surface, and you may already have some of this technology hanging in your cloakroom. Intuitive Machines’ Nova-C lunar lander “Odysseus” (“Odie” for short) will attempt to become the first U.S.-built commercial spacecraft to land on the… Read More »