When distant stars explode, they emit flashes of energy called gamma-ray bursts that are bright enough for telescopes on Earth to detect them. Studying these pulses, which can also come from the merger of some exotic astronomical objects such as black holes and neutron stars, can help astronomers like me understand the history of the… Read More »
NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara prepared for her first spacewalk, but not for the view. O’Hara, along with SpaceX Crew-7 NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, conducted her fourth all-female spacewalk on the International Space Station (ISS) on November 1, 2023. They spent 6 hours and 42 minutes maintaining the station. Replacing a bearing to allow solar panels… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA is looking for innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future. The rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, is collecting samples from Jezero… Read More »
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. NASA is looking for innovative methods that could help retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on Mars in the future. The rover, which landed on Mars in February 2021, is collecting samples from Jezero… Read More »
NASA announced Monday that it is revising its Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission plans due to the estimated cost and long wait time for samples to return to Earth. The mission’s goal was to collect samples of rock, soil, atmosphere and loose surface material and send them back to Earth via the Mars Perseverance rover.… Read More »
Dr.Sebastian Voltmer | www.voltmer.photo Allegation: An actual photo taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) shows the solar eclipse on April 8, 2024. Evaluation: Rating: Wrongly written Context: real photo [pictured above] It wasn’t pulled by JWST and it won’t be pulled in 2024 either. The image that went viral is a digital drawing… Read More »
A spherical proportional counter detector at the Modane underground laboratory in 2019. He had a spherical copper container filled with noble gas to search for dark matter. (Submitted by Marie-Cécile Piro – image source) Dark matter has never been seen before, but scientists think it could help explain the mysteries of the universe. And a… Read More »
CNN Original Series “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight” reveals the events that ultimately led to the disaster. The four-part documentary will conclude on Sunday at 9pm ET/PT. Perhaps more than any other moment in NASA history, the shuttle Columbia disaster reshaped the U.S. space agency’s approach to innovation, forever shifting the balance between risk and… Read More »
Forty-three years after the space shuttle Columbia touched down from its maiden mission, CNN is set to air a four-part series chronicling the orbiter’s ill-fated final return to Earth. “Space Shuttle Columbia: Last Flight,” a new documentary co-produced by the BBC and Mindhouse Productions, looks back at STS-107, the winged spacecraft’s 28th mission that ended… Read More »
According to the new agreement signed between the USA and Japan, the first non-American person to walk on the moon will be a Japanese astronaut. US President Joe Biden announced the goal during an official visit by Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio on Wednesday, April 10. “Science and education ties between Japan and the United… Read More »