The June full moon, also called the Strawberry Moon, will occur on June 21 at 21:08 Eastern Daylight Time (0108 UTC June 22). US Naval Observatory. Observers in Oceania are almost full moon pass in front of the star AntaresAlpha Scorpii, the brightest star ScorpionScorpio on June 20th. Moonrise in New York City will occur… Read More »
The return of Boeing’s Starliner capsule to Earth will be delayed a few more days due to thruster troubleshooting and a planned spacewalk. NASA announced today (June 18) that Starliner will complete its first manned mission to the International Space Station (ISS) no later than June 26, approximately three weeks after launch. Landing that day… Read More »
Boeing’s leak-prone Starliner capsule will remain docked with the International Space Station for another four days and will return to White Sands, New Mexico, on June 26 to complete its extended flight period of June 20-20, NASA announced Tuesday. It will return to Earth with a pre-dawn landing in . daily test flight – the… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of scientific data from unexplored regions for the first time since a computer glitch sidelined the historic NASA mission seven months ago. Voyager 1, currently… Read More »
Planets can survive the death of their stars and become capable of supporting life; Now astronomers will start looking for them. Stars can’t survive forever, Sun including. In about five billion yearsThe Earth star will begin to consume the hydrogen source it uses to produce energy. nuclear fusion in its core. The Sun’s core will… Read More »
Ancestors of Alaska Native people began using local copper resources to make complex tools about 1,000 years ago. More than a third of all copper objects found by archaeologists in this region were excavated at a single spot called the Gulkana Site. This is the site I’ve been working on for the last four years… Read More »
A binary black hole system in an active galaxy about 4 billion light-years away was seen to brighten dramatically when one of the black holes briefly formed the accretion disk of the other into a double star. quasar. A quasar is the extremely active core of a distant galaxy. This activity is a product of… Read More »
If you were attacked by a greedy vampire star or risked falling into two dueling black holes, you’d probably run away too! One of these terrifying scenarios is likely responsible for sending a low-mass star across the Milky Way at a staggering million miles per hour (1.6 million kilometers per hour). This is approximately 1,500… Read More »
Imagine pointing a laser beam at a penny 200 miles away. Now imagine riding the carousel and doing so for 24 hours straight. Does it seem difficult? In fact, this is what the Hubble Space Telescope does. After months of technical problems, NASA announced on June 4 that Hubble would switch to single gyro mode.… Read More »
MONROVIA, Calif. — The laboratory at Terray Therapeutics is a symphony of miniaturized automation. The robots spin quickly and carry small tubes of liquid to their stations. Scientists in blue coats, sterile gloves and protective glasses monitor the machines. But what really happens is at the nanoscale: Proteins in solution combine with chemical molecules held… Read More »