Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. The Curiosity rover has made its most unusual find yet on Mars: rocks made of pure sulfur. And it all started when the 1-ton rover passed over a rock and cracked it open, revealing yellowish-green… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (Main) The Sun, which has an 11-year solar cycle (top right) A Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) image of a large sunspot that formed on May 5, 2024 (bottom right) A Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) image of a… Read More »
Storm chasing for science can be exciting and stressful — we know, because we do it. It’s also been important for advancing today’s understanding of how hurricanes form and behave. The movie “Twister,” released in 1996, brought storm-chasing scientists into the public spotlight and inspired a generation of atmospheric scientists. With the release of the… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy, now retired, uses an Extraterrestrial Mobility Unit (EMU) spacesuit during a spacewalk in 2013. Shortly after the photo was taken, the effort was suspended on July 16, 2013, when crewmate and European Space Agency astronaut… Read More »
With weeks left in the heart of fire season, more than 242,000 acres have burned in California, about twice the normal area for this time of year, according to statistics from the state Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. While the number of fires that have started so far is typical for the summer, intense… Read More »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The universe is providing a full moon this weekend for the 55th anniversary of the first moon landing, and many other events are also honoring the special day. Neil Armstrong And Buzz Aldrin‘s giant leap. Aldrin, 94, the last surviving member of the Apollo 11 crew, is presiding over a… Read More »
NEW YORK (AP) — Scientists have warned for decades that continued burning of oil, gas and coal would have devastating climate impacts that are being felt around the world. Climate change causes extreme weather events By all accounts, the past few years have been brutal for the climate — and for the people and creatures… Read More »
As a child in Ivory Coast, West Africa, Tidiane Ouattara would gather with friends in his village to gaze at the stars. The group, who called themselves the “Moon Club,” would lie on the ground and gaze up at the cosmos. “We believed we could talk to the moon,” he told CNN in a video… Read More »
When you press “start” on your microwave or computer, it immediately powers on—but that’s not how big physics experiments like the Large Hadron Collider at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN. Instead, engineers and physicists must set aside a few weeks each year to carefully reset the collider and all the experiments… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. (main) drawing of a neutron star (inset) radio image of the S-shaped precession jet ejected by the neutron star Circinus X-1. | Source: Fraser Cowie Astronomers have captured for the first time a strange S-shaped jet emanating from a… Read More »