Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. Hundreds of basketball-sized space rocks are hitting Mars every year, leaving behind impact craters and rumbling sounds on the red planet, according to new research. Mission planners could use that information, recorded in data collected… Read More »
Meteorites are hitting Mars 10 times more frequently than previously estimated, according to two new research papers that describe the seismic shock waves from these impacts detected by NASA’s now-defunct Mars InSight lander. The new rate is surprising. According to the findings, between 180 and 260 collisions occur annually on the Red Planet, and these… Read More »
Boeing’s Starliner capsule returns to Earth pending indefinitely NASA announced Friday that it is awaiting results from new thruster tests and ongoing analysis of helium leaks that occurred during the craft’s rendezvous with the International Space Station. But agency officials insisted Starliner commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams they are not “stranded” in… Read More »
“Every good thing comes to an end.” This saying is valid both in the universe and on Earth. We realize that stars, like everything else, must die. When the fuel supply for nuclear fusion in their cores is exhausted, stars of all sizes collapse under their own gravity and die to form a dense cosmic… Read More »
NASA has confirmed that a large pile of space debris discovered on a mountain road in North Carolina last month came from a SpaceX capsule headed to the International Space Station. The piece of debris was found in late May by an employee of The Glamping Collective, a luxury mountain resort in Haywood County near… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. While taking on administrative duties in ancient Egypt may not have seemed physically demanding, new research has revealed that being a clerk left its mark on the skeletons of the men who held these privileged… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. On the Reykjanes Peninsula, about 56 kilometers (35 miles) south of Iceland’s capital Reykjavik, volcanoes are active again after 800 years of inactivity. Since 2021, a series of explosions have disrupted daily life in the… Read More »
By Joey Roulette WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. space agencies reported that an unused Russian satellite broke into more than 100 pieces in orbit, resulting in astronauts on the International Space Station having to take shelter for about an hour and increasing the mass of space debris in orbit. No details have yet been given as… Read More »
Scientists have discovered that the Milky Way’s diffuse outer halo is devoid of any unusually large black holes. The discovery could spell bad news for theories that suggest dark matter, the universe’s most mysterious “stuff,” is composed of primordial black holes that formed in the early moments after the Big Bang. Dark matter is confusing… Read More »
The world’s largest capitals are experiencing more extreme heat days than ever before, a dangerous trend driven by scorching temperatures in Asia as the climate crisis worsens, according to a new study. The world’s 20 most populous cities (home to more than 300 million people combined) have seen a 52% increase in the number of… Read More »