Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After completing 72 historic flights on Mars in three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly on another world, taking off on April … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After completing 72 historic flights on Mars in three years, NASA’s Ingenuity helicopter mission has ended. Originally designed as an experiment, Ingenuity became the first aircraft to fly on another world, taking off on April … Read more
In 2015, the same year, an immense observatory was built Soil After proving the 4D fabric of spacetime, scientists started toying with a rather far-fetched idea: if intelligent aliens exist, might they have tried to create their own scientific megastructure? And if they did, can we find it? Have we actually done that yet? Yes, … Read more
The full moon hangs in view with the Orion, in the shell of the payload on top of the SLS rocket. Specialists are now gathering potential photography assignments for NASA’s manned lunar flight Artemis 2, expected to take place in September 2025. Hidden in them Orion spacecraftthey will be hurled to the moon by NASA … Read more
Privately made spacesuits for NASA lunar astronauts could reach a major design milestone this year. Officials from Axiom Space, the company that makes spacesuits for the Artemis program, said Monday (Jan. 22) that the garments may will soon arrive at a critical design assessment. In fact, that review could take place as early as June. … Read more
Images taken by NASA’s upcoming Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope could allow scientists to search for dark matter among stars. An international team of researchers believes that gaps in strings of stars hanging from tightly packed spheres of old stellar bodies, called globular clusters, could be influenced by clumps of dark matter. Until now, astronomers … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After flying hundreds of thousands of miles through space and battling a propellant problem that derailed its plans, the Peregrine lunar lander has likely met its fiery end. The spacecraft was expected to end its … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. After flying hundreds of thousands of miles through space and battling a propellant problem that derailed its plans, the Peregrine lunar lander has likely met its fiery end. The spacecraft was expected to end its … Read more
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. A SpaceX rocket took off for the International Space Station on another groundbreaking mission conducted entirely by the private sector. On board are a group of European astronauts, including the first person from Turkey to … Read more
NASA’s last remaining pre-flight external space shuttle tank finally took to the skies, albeit for just two short hops over Los Angeles. In what was originally planned as an overnight move, but expanded to a two-day process due to wind concerns and extra caution, the External Tank-94 (ET-94) was raised by two large cranes and … Read more