Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is set to mark its crowning achievement this month: carrying two NASA astronauts on a round trip to the International Space Station, proving the long-delayed and overpriced capsule is up … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — Astronomers are witnessing a never-before-seen spectacle in the cosmos: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. End of 2019 a team of astronomers have noted an … Read more
M. Kornmesser/ESO An artist’s illustration shows a massive black hole awakening at the center of a distant galaxy. The black hole pulls in a growing disk of material as it feeds on surrounding gas, making the galaxy brighter. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific … Read more
Stavros Kundromichalis An artist’s reconstruction of the Southern Hemisphere’s oldest known sea-going reptile: nothosaurs swimming along the ancient Antarctic coast of what is now New Zealand about 246 million years ago. CNN — Scientists have discovered a 246-million-year-old fossil of a marine reptile, the oldest of its kind found in the Southern Hemisphere, shedding new … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of science data from uncharted territory for the first time since a computer glitch disrupted NASA’s historic mission seven months ago. Voyager 1, … Read more
NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Voyager 1 is shown in an artist’s illustration as the spacecraft travels through interstellar space, or the space between stars. Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — For about fifty years, the scientific community has been grappling with a substantial problem: there isn’t enough visible matter in the universe. All the matter we can see — stars, planets, cosmic dust … Read more
NASA/FUSE/Lynette Cook An illustration shows colliding asteroids around the central star in the Beta Pictoris system and the formation of terrestrial planets. The insets show what two of the system’s planets might look like. “The James Webb Telescope: Are We Alone?” about the whole story with Anderson Cooper offers a glimpse into the most powerful … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — When the sun unleashed an extreme solar storm and hit Mars in May, the red planet was awash with aurora and an influx of charged particles and radiation, NASA said. The sun has … Read more
Gabriel Ugueto/Curtin University An artist’s impression of Haliskia peterseni Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. CNN — An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs about 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, … Read more