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Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. CNN — A recently discovered comet, known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, … Read More
Over the last few years, Virginia Tech scientists have been looking to the octopus for inspiration to design technologies that can better grip a wide variety of objects in underwater … Read More
Lava around the world may come from the same magma ancestor deep in Earth’s middle layer, new research finds. The study suggests that the deep mantle, where magma arises, is … Read More
WASHINGTON (AP) — As if the largest bug to ever live – a monster nearly 9 feet long with as many as 64 legs – wasn’t terrifying enough, scientists could … Read More
Visualization of the Sun-Earth Lagrange points. Orbital mechanics is a fun subject, as it involves a lot of seemingly empty space that’s nevertheless full of very real forces, all of … Read More
Susan Kassin, an astronomer at the Space Telescope Science Institute, showed images from previous observatories compared to JWST’s. It was like having the optometrist flip a lens so that the … Read More
As preparations for NASA’s ambitious Artemis lunar missions move forward, the European Space Agency (ESA) has taken an important step by testing the Handheld Universal Lunar Camera (HULC) during their … Read More
Where in space would you explore if money were no object? What burning scientific question would you want to see answered? Professor Brian Cox has a clear answer about that. … Read More
NASA has unveiled a groundbreaking initiative under its storied Explorers Program, introducing a new category of missions known as Probe Explorers. These missions aim to fill the gap between NASA’s … Read More
The Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter was audacious in other ways, such as using a landing component to directly sample Europa’s ice. Unfortunately, the mission also became insanely expensive, with a … Read More
