Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers have spotted the oldest “dead” galaxy ever observed while studying the cosmos with the James Webb Space Telescope, and it’s one of the deepest views into the distant universe made with the observatory to […]
Cometary Gates Researchers have discovered “cometary organic matter” while studying samples from Ryugu, a near-Earth asteroid that was visited by Japan’s Hayabusa 2 spacecraft in 2018. The mission returned samples to Earth in December 2020, giving scientists potentially invaluable insights into the origins of life on Earth, which some researchers now believe may have been […]
There’s no denying that the housing market in California is rough. In fact, the capital city ranked the seventh least affordable in the country for first-time Generation Z homebuyers, according to a report from Point2, an online real estate marketplace. The study looked at the possibility of Gen Z ownership in 100 major cities and […]
Jan. 20—How did an item that was stolen nearly 75 years ago — and apparently ditched by the robbers — recently resurface in the Roanoke River? And what does that have to do with High Point? That’s the mystery a New York man has been trying to solve since last fall, when the stolen keepsake […]
A team of astronomers has used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to discover the most distant and oldest black hole ever seen as it feasts upon its host galaxy. The discovery could be a massive step forward in understanding how supermassive black holes reached masses equivalent to millions of billions of times that of […]
DES MOINES, Iowa — The fight for second fiddle plays on, but the Iowa caucuses were full of hints that the music will eventually stop for candidates not named Donald Trump. In the short term, the former president won a bonus on top of his commanding first-place finish: Because his two leading rivals finished so […]
North Korea fired a suspected intermediate-range ballistic missile towards the sea on Sunday, South Korea’s military said – its first launch this year. The move came two months after the North claimed to have tested engines for a new harder-to-detect missile capable of striking distant US targets in the region. Experts have said North Korea […]
The Hubble Space Telescope has seen cyclones raging in the dynamic atmosphere of a hot Jupiter located 880 light years away, thanks to observations and computer modeling that could one day be applied to characterize weather on smaller, rocky exoplanets. The planet, dubbed WASP-121b, has a mass about 1.16 times greater than our solar system’s […]