By Will Dunham (Reuters) – On February 20, 1824, British naturalist and theologian William Buckland, addressing the Geological Society of London, described massive jaw and limb bones unearthed in a slate quarry in the village of Stonesfield, near Oxford. Buckland recognized that these fossils belonged to a giant reptile from the past and gave it… Read More »
The extreme explosion of a young Sun-like star suggests that newly developing planets must exist in a very wild environment. A team of scientists from the Center for Astrophysics (CfA) used the Submillimeter Array (SMA), an array of telescopes on Maunakea in Hawaii, to observe the young star HD 283572. The team watched as HD… Read More »
Early Mars may have been more tectonically and volcanically active than previously thought. Evidence of tectonic activity about 4 billion years ago is provided by 63 new samples of volcanoes found in a strange region of Mars with strange features that distinguish it from other mountainous regions of Mars. A team of planetary scientists has… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A megastructure found in the Baltic Sea may represent one of the oldest known hunting structures used in the Stone Age, changing what is known about how hunter-gatherers lived about 11,000 years ago. Researchers and… Read More »
Scientists have found that some planets can migrate towards the heart of planetary systems early in their lives; This probably explains the lack of planets we see that are about twice as wide as Earth. Over the years, scientists have managed to observe many exoplanets smaller or larger than Earth, but planets exactly 1.6 to… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. After last month’s failed Moon landing mission, NASA is pinning its hopes on a second spacecraft developed by a separate company that would make the first US Moon landing in more than fifty years. The… Read More »
From African elephants searching for water to turtles crossing the seas to nest to albatrosses foraging across oceans, the world’s migratory species are threatened across the planet, according to a landmark report on Monday. The first Status of World Migratory Species assessment, focusing on 1,189 species covered by the UN Convention on the Conservation of… Read More »
supermassive black hole in our center Milky Way galaxy It spins so fast that it warps space-time into an oval shape reminiscent of an American football (or a rugby ball for non-American readers). The finding comes from a careful study of radio and X-ray observations. According to this Albert Einstein‘S general theory of relativityAs a… Read More »
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch a new private lunar lander to the moon for Intuitive Machines and NASA this week, and you can watch it live online in a series of free webcasts. Intuitive Machines’ first Nova-C lander mission, called IM-1, will launch to the moon aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on February… Read More »
Before NASA’s new X-59 supersonic jet could break the sound barrier, scientists needed to record equivalent sonic booms to use as reference. Test pilots at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center took to the skies high in the Southern California desert near the U.S. Air Force’s Edwards Air Force Base to produce the “thumps” the X-59… Read More »