of china Chang’e-6 The mission is currently on its way to retrieve a material sample from the far side. moonIt will test theories about why the near and far sides of the Moon are so different. Have Launched on May 3 Chang’e-6 is expected to land in the even larger Apollo double-ring impact basin in… Read More »
NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Telescope could use the grisly death of stars being torn apart by black holes to hunt for the universe’s first population of stellar bodies. These early stars, referred to (somewhat confusingly) as Population III (Pop III) stars, were very different from the sun and other stars seen in the cosmos… Read More »
Black hole week ends today (May 10), and there’s no better way to mark the occasion than with “egg-casual” black hole science. Using gravitational wave measurements made by the US-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the Virgo and KAGRA detectors in Italy and Japan, scientists found that the orbits of some binary black… Read More »
In less than half a decade, a 305-foot-wide asteroid named after Apophis, the Egyptian god of chaos and destruction, will pass within 30,000 miles (48,300 kilometers) of Earth. Scientists do not intend to let rare close passes of a space rock this size go to waste. On April 13, 2029 – a Friday, no less… Read More »
Black hole week is in full swing at this point, and to celebrate, NASA has released stunning observations of the heart of a distant spiral galaxy, as well as the monster supermassive black hole that lives within that heart. The observations were carried out by the X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), led by the… Read More »
He went and did it again. Massive sunspot AR3664 has unleashed the most powerful solar flare ever, and Earth is once again in the line of fire. The X3.98 burst peaked early this morning (May 10) at 02:54 (0654 GMT) and triggered a temporary or complete loss of high-frequency (HF) radio signals across Asia, Eastern… Read More »
A severe G4 geomagnetic storm could emerge as early as Friday, prompting NOAA officials to trigger a storm of that magnitude for the first time in nearly 20 years. The hour comes after days of solar activity that sent several bursts of plasma and magnetic fields toward Earth. G4s are the second strongest form of… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. A series of solar flares and coronal mass ejections from the sun have the potential to create dazzling auroras that could be seen as far south as Alabama and Northern California, as well as disrupt… Read More »
Highly pathogenic avian influenza (also known as HPAI or bird flu) has been detected on a dairy farm in Colorado, making it the ninth state where cases have been confirmed. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories confirmed the virus was in a herd in northeastern Colorado on April 25, 2024. This farm… Read More »
Algorithms are the basis of modern life. People rely on algorithmic recommendations to navigate deep catalogs and find the best movies, routes, information, products, people and investments. Because humans train algorithms on their own judgments (for example, algorithms that make recommendations on e-commerce and social media sites), algorithms learn and encode human biases. Algorithmic recommendations… Read More »