The DearMoon crew shared their disappointment on social media after the mission was abruptly cancelled. Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa canceled his planned flight around the moon on June 1 due to SpaceX delays starship Megarocket, which has not yet conducted a single crewed test flight. Maezawa first booked the private trip in 2018, inviting eight… Read More »
A silent giant lurks on the Pacific coast, threatening hundreds of kilometers of coastline with tsunamis and devastating earthquakes. For decades, scientists have been warning about the potential of the Cascadia Subduction Zone, a megathrust fault that runs along the coast from North Vancouver Island to California’s Cape Mendocino. The next time the fault —… Read More »
Astronomers have discovered the slowest spinning radio-emitting neutron star ever seen; It takes almost an hour to complete a full rotation. That might sound pretty fast, but these dead stars are known to spin so fast that some make 700 full rotations each. second. Even the slowest of the nearly 3,000 radio-emitting neutron stars, or… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. You wouldn’t know it by looking at them, but some plants have much more DNA than others. And perhaps even more surprising, some have much more than most animals, including humans. Now scientists are uncovering… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. When a father, his two sons, and their cousins went for a walk in the Badlands of North Dakota in 2022, they found what looked like a dinosaur leg sticking out of a rock. Liam… Read More »
Five hundred years ago, in a mountain-lined ocean fjord in southeastern Alaska, Tlingit hunters armed with bone-tipped harpoons navigated their canoes through drifts of ice in pursuit of seals near the Sít Tlein (Hubbard) glacier. They must have stared nervously at the looming, broken face of the glacier; They were aware that icefalls could come… Read More »
The fourth test flight of the largest and most powerful rocket ever built is in the books, and what a dramatic and exciting ride it has been for SpaceX. SpaceX launched its Starship megarocket for the fourth time today (June 6) at 8:50 a.m. EDT (1250 GMT), sending the 400-foot-long (122 meters) vehicle aloft from… Read More »
A mysterious hole in the slope of an ancient rock volcano Open Anthem It’s caused a stir lately because of what it might reveal beneath the Red Planet’s surface. Here’s what it means. First of all, the pit, only a few meters in diameter, was actually imaged by NASA on August 15, 2022. Mars Reconnaissance… Read More »
NASA astronauts had to wait as they tried to dock Boeing’s first manned Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station on Thursday, June 6. The five aft thrusters in the Starliner service module were disabled. And that was after flight controllers found workarounds for two new helium leaks in addition to one the spacecraft already… Read More »
You may have heard some not-so-trivial things poisonous flying spiders which can fly with the winds, like to eat butterflies, and are currently showing up along the East Coast. They’re called Joro spiders, and their lifestyle is as interesting as their appearance. Perhaps the most interesting part? According to a report published by the University… Read More »