Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news of fascinating discoveries, scientific breakthroughs and more. CNN — Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew past an asteroid named Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary system — two smaller space rocks touching each other — … Read more
Another coronal mass ejection from the sun could make the northern lights visible again over parts of New England on Friday night. Even if the geomagnetic aurora borealis isn’t lighting up the skies over Massachusetts, there’s still an incredible opportunity to see a different solar phenomenon. Three weeks ago, a solar storm erupted from a … Read more
Zoom in / A seaborne version of the commercial Ceres 1 rocket lifts off near the coast of Rizhao, a city of 3 million in China’s Shandong province. Welcome to Rocket Report Release 6.46! It looks like next week we’ll be covering the crew test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and the fourth test flight … Read more
image source, Matthew Sherman Image caption, Mr. Cooper’s discovery was reassembled in New York before 2 hours The first stegosaurus skeleton to go on the market will fetch millions of dollars in New York. But the extraordinary discovery was made by accident, thousands of kilometers to the west during a man’s birthday walk, writes Stephen … Read more
SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket may take to the skies for a fourth time on June 5, primarily to evaluate the second stage’s reusable heat shield as the vehicle attempts to safely re-enter the atmosphere for the first time. CEO Elon Musk said on his social media platform X that “There are a lot of hard … Read more
The researchers found that elusive intermediate-mass black holes can form in dense star clusters containing anywhere from tens of thousands to millions of tightly packed stars, called “globular clusters.” An intermediate-mass black hole has a mass between 100 and 10,000 suns. They are heavier than solar-mass black holes, which have a mass range between 10 … Read more
The early universe contained far fewer miniatures black holes than previously thought, making the origin of the missing matter in our cosmos even more of a mystery, a new study suggests. Miniature or primordial black holes (PBHs) are black holes thought to have formed in the first fractions of a second after the Big Bang. … Read more
Artist’s concept of a previously proposed possible planet, HD 26965 b – often compared to the fictional “Vulcan” in the Star Trek universe. Credit: JPL-Caltech New research refutes the existence of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit around 40 Eridani A, attributing the detected signals to the surface activity of the star. A planet believed … Read more
How to do it is Slate’s sex advice column. I have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. This is anonymous! Dear How to do it, My wife and I have been married for 18 years and together for 22. We are happy, successful, have children, the white picket fence, everything. I had … Read more
It’s been 2½ weeks since the once-in-a-generation aurora display, or northern and southern lights, visited both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres. Brilliant lights danced as far south as Jamaica, Mexico, India, South Africa and Australia. Space scientists said the solar storm that caused the display was the most intense in decades. An extreme solar storm … Read more