Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news about fascinating discoveries, scientific developments and more. An innovative experiment aboard NASA’s Psyche mission has just reached its first major milestone by successfully performing the most distant demonstration of laser communications. The tech demo could one day help NASA missions delve deeper … Read more
The recent death of Frank Borman, commander of NASA’s Apollo 8 mission in 1968, has focused attention on that incredible first trip to the moon. It took place eight months before Apollo 11, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin first explored the moon’s surface. However, the impact of Apollo 8’s ‘Earthrise’ photo – the view … Read more
Sophie Kastner is a composer who has translated the unlistenable into songs and converted nuanced data from the heart of our Galaxy into the notes of a dissonant symphony. “It’s like writing a fictional story based largely on real facts,” she said in one rack. Her piece ‘Where Parallel Lines Converge’ is based on a … Read more