Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, Sign up for free here. Over the past few years, rival countries have turned the moon into a hotspot for activity not seen since Apollo 17 astronauts left the lunar surface in 1972. In one… Read More »
Boeing executive Mark Nappi has a spacecraft checklist of about 90 items. Nappi is working with NASA to facilitate the Crew Flight Test (CFT) of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, scheduled for launch on May 6, the first mission with astronauts on board. Stating that Starliner went to space twice during unmanned test flights in 2019 and… Read More »
Animal behavior research is based on careful observation of animals. Researchers can spend months in forest habitats watching tropical birds mate and raise their young. They can monitor physical contact rates in cattle herds of different densities. Or they could record the sounds whales make as they migrate through the ocean. Animal behavior research can… Read More »
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — After years of delays and stumbles, Boeing is finally preparing to send astronauts to the International Space Station for NASA. This is the first flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule with a crew, a pair of NASA pilots who will control the spacecraft during the test run, and a week-long stay… Read More »
China is returning to the mysterious far side of the moon, and this time the country will bring some souvenirs. The robotic Chang’e 6 mission launched today (May 3) at 5:27 a.m. EDT (0927 GMT; 5:27 p.m. Beijing time) and was launched aboard a Long March 5 rocket at the Wenchang Space Launch Site in… Read More »
Citizen scientists mining data collected by NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) discovered a record-breaking world and gave it a memorable nickname to match: Percival, after the father of Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts in the Harry Potter books. . But in more formal terms, the extrasolar planet or “exoplanet” is called TOI 4633 c.… Read More »
It has been 38 years since Halley’s Comet last passed through the inner solar system. This famous comet takes approximately 75 years to orbit the Sun. But if you’re 42 or younger, you probably have little to no memory of this famous cosmic rogue’s appearance in 1986 (your next chance will come in the summer… Read More »
Curiosity Mars rover He detected intriguing chemical evidence in the form of abnormal amounts of manganese oxide. Anthem Billions of years ago it had not only a habitable environment, but also an environment probably inhabited by microbes. NASA’s Curiosity Exploring the giant Gale crater with a diameter of 154 kilometers (about 96 miles)Curiosity’s discoveries revealed… Read More »
It is impossible to deny the amazing predictive power Albert Einstein‘s theory of gravity in 1915, general relativity – but the theory still has inconsistencies when it comes to calculating its effect over large distances. And new research suggests these discrepancies may be the result of a “cosmic glitch” in gravity. In the 109 years… Read More »
Mosquito fighters in Los Angeles are adding another weapon to their arsenal: more mosquitoes. The Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District on Thursday launched a pilot program to release tens of thousands of irradiated, lab-grown mosquitoes into the local environment. These mosquitoes are all male and have been sterilized by radiation; So the hope… Read More »