When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration of exoplanets around a star, with its magnetic field shown in green. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA A planet’s chances of hosting life depend not only on its proximity to its parent star and the… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Large colonies of rock star coral and symmetrical brain coral cover the coral reefs of Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary. | Credit: GP Schmahl/NOAA Coral Reef Awareness Week took place around the world the week of July 15… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows the moon Ariel orbiting the ice giant Uranus. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have discovered that Uranus’ moon Ariel may be hiding in a buried ocean… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. European Space Agency reserve astronaut John McFall participates in a parabolic flight supported by the agency and Novespace in Bordeaux, France, on April 6, 2023. McFall is the first reserve astronaut with a disability. | Credit: ESA/Novespace Just days… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a key clue for its mission to Mars: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the red planet billions of years ago. The robotic explorer came across a… Read More »
New Delhi — Scientists say the zealous use of a painkiller by Indian farmers for their cattle in the 1990s has led to the unintentional deaths of half a million people and huge economic losses — not from any harm done to the cattle themselves, but from the deaths of millions of vultures, which historically… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock on Mars that may have once hosted microbial life. The rock, nicknamed Cheyava Falls, has chemical compositions and structures that could have been formed by ancient life, but non-biological processes cannot yet… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An illustration shows a runaway brown dwarf escaping from a spiral galaxy. | Credit: Robert Lea (Created with Canva)/NASA A newly discovered stray stellar body may be a “failed star,” but it’s certainly not a failure when it comes… Read More »
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When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. Boeing’s Starliner docked with the International Space Station during Crew Flight Test in July 2024. | Source: NASA Boeing’s Starliner aircraft will soon conduct a “hot fire” test in orbit as NASA and the company continue to investigate the… Read More »