A Stegosaurus skeleton described as the “most complete and best-preserved” example of its species ever discovered is expected to fetch up to $6 million at auction this summer – but not everyone is happy about it. The “extraordinary” and “nearly complete” dinosaur fossil, measuring 3 meters tall and 20 meters long, will be sold as… Read More »
When people think about the risks of climate change, the idea of sudden change sounds pretty scary. Movies like “The Day After Tomorrow” feed into this fear with images of populations fleeing to escape unimaginable storms and rapidly changing temperatures. While Hollywood clearly takes liberties with the pace and magnitude of disasters, some recent studies… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Visitors come face to face with the past while visiting the newly opened Perth Museum and Art Gallery in Scotland. Lifelike digital facial reconstructions of people who lived in Perth and Kinross, Scotland, centuries ago… Read More »
Scientists may have learned the history of the little ones contact binary moon orbiting asteroid 152830 DinkineshNASA’s first cosmic stop Lucy spacecraft. This moonlet may have formed from its larger parent asteroid When Dinkinesh was sent spinning through space after absorbing and re-emitting sunlight. The Lucy mission, launched in 2021, is on track to explore… Read More »
A planet beyond the solar system that has been compared to Spock’s home world of Vulcan in the Star Trek series may be nothing more than an illusion caused by a strained star. The extrasolar planet, or “exoplanet” (a term for a planet outside our solar system), is proposed to orbit a star called 40… Read More »
The first Boeing Starliner astronauts returned to the launch site. NASA Crew Flight Test (CFT) astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams arrived at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Tuesday, May 28, ahead of the expected Boeing Starliner liftoff on Saturday, June 1. NASA will conduct a delta flight readiness review later today (May… Read More »
Scientists using the Euclid space telescope have discovered a staggering 1.5 trillion orphan stars drifting within a massive cluster of thousands of galaxies, one of the largest structures in the universe. Torn away from their home galaxy, these orphan stars fill the space between the Perseus cluster’s galaxies with ghostly blue light. This so-called “intra-cluster”… Read More »
The idea of beaming power from space to an energy-hungry Earth has long been explored. It was first suggested in science fiction 80 years ago. “The officer’s office at Sun Station No. 5 was quiet—except for the soft murmurs of the mighty Beam Director somewhere far below,” famous author Isaac Asimov wrote in his story… Read More »
When a star is born or dies, or any very energetic event occurs in the universe, it emits X-rays, which are high-energy particles of light invisible to the naked eye. These x-rays are the type doctors use to take pictures of broken bones in the body. But instead of looking at the shadows cast by… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Cancer is often considered the disease of the modern age. However, medical texts in ancient Egypt show that healers of the time were aware of this condition. Now, new evidence from a skull more than… Read More »