When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. International Space Station. | Source: NASA NASA says the International Space Station is scheduled to be replaced in the 2030s, but it will be a long time before the orbiting laboratory officially reaches the end of its life. SpaceX’s… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Astronomers have detected an exoplanet with an extremely elongated orbit and drastic temperature changes that could be evolving into another kind of world. The exoplanet, named TIC 241249530 b, orbits a star about 1,100 light-years… Read More »
SpaceX is building a souped-up version of its cargo Dragon spacecraft to deorbit the International Space Station and perform a controlled re-entry and breakup in a remote part of the ocean after the laboratory is set to retire in 2030, NASA and company officials said Wednesday. The ISS Deorbit Vehicle (DV) will be a one-of-a-kind,… Read More »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX will use a powerful, improved capsule to launch the International Space Station out of orbit once the spacious laboratory expires. NASA and Elon Musk’s company outlined a plan Wednesday to incinerate the space station upon re-entry and dump what’s left in the ocean, ideally in early 2031 when it… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. More than 20,000 years ago, in what is now Argentina, some of the first humans in the Americas encountered and dismembered a giant armadillo-like creature with stone tools, according to a new study. The discovery,… 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 »
Scientists have long theorized the existence of lunar caves — underground passages formed by volcanic processes and connected to sinkholes that cover the moon’s surface. Now, an international team of researchers has found the first direct evidence that the deepest known sinkhole on the moon is connected to a cave that could provide shelter for… Read More »
By Daniel Trotta IMPERIAL BEACH, Calif./TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – Millions of gallons of sewage are being dumped every day through a canyon into the Pacific Ocean just south of the U.S.-Mexico border. As any San Diego surfer knows, summer waves from the south will push the toxic water north. Meanwhile, millions of gallons of treated… Read More »
A new study suggests that climate change is changing the very essence of the Earth. As polar and glacial ice melts due to global warming, water that was once concentrated at the top and bottom of the globe is being redistributed toward the equator. The extra mass at the center of the Earth slows its… Read More »
Shortly after the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) began its scientific operations, astronomers announced that they had discovered galaxies in the early universe that were very large, bright, and full of stars for their age. While headlines around the world claimed that these galaxies “broke” our understanding of the Big Bang, the truth is much… Read More »