When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. A drawing shows what the universe might look like when it’s less than 1 billion years old. | Credit: NASA, ESA and A. Schaller (for STScI) When NASA’s next great extraterrestrial observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, opens… Read More »
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Their high-risk mission was supposed to last about a week, but 56 days later, two NASA astronauts are still waiting at the International Space Station as teams on the ground try to find a way to get them home safely aboard the Boeing spacecraft they launched into orbit. The troubled Starliner capsule has two problems:… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. An image of Didymos and Dimorphos composed of data collected by DART (NASA), Hayabusa (JAXA), Hayabusa-2 (JAXA), and OSIRIS-REX (NASA). | Credit: A. Duchene and C. Robin (ISAE-SUPAERO). Scientists have used images collected by NASA’s DART asteroid impactor mission… Read More »
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When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. On July 23, 1999, NASA’s Chandra X-Ray Observatory was launched into space by five astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia as it flew over the Indonesian island chain. | Credit: NASA NASA’s flagship for the last 25 years Chandra… Read More »
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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific advances and more. NASA’s Perseverance rover may have found a key clue for its mission to Mars: geological evidence that could suggest life existed on the red planet billions of years ago. The robotic explorer came across a… Read More »
When you buy through links in our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn commission. NASA’s Perseverance rover has discovered a rock on Mars that may have once hosted microbial life. The rock, nicknamed Cheyava Falls, has chemical compositions and structures that could have been formed by ancient life, but non-biological processes cannot yet… Read More »
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