The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has discovered what could be the earliest star clusters in the universe. JWST spotted the five proto-globular clusters — swarms of millions of stars bound together by gravity — inside the Cosmic Gems arc, a galaxy that formed just 460 million years after the Big Bang. The Cosmic Gems […]
The first named storm of the season, Tropical Storm Alberto, has parts of the Texas and Mexican gulf coasts under Tropical Storm Warning. Meanwhile, the disturbance in the Atlantic Ocean still shows little signs of forming into something more. Here’s what you need to know. Tropical Storm Alberto Wind speed: 40 mph sustained winds. “Some […]
Tiny primordial black holes created during the first fraction of a second after the Big Bang may have had company, in the form of even smaller “supercharged” black holes with the mass of a rhino that rapidly evaporated. A team of researchers has theorized that these tiny “rhino” black holes, which would represent an entirely […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Astronomers were in for a surprise when NASA’s Lucy mission flew by an asteroid named Dinkinesh in November and spotted a contact binary — two smaller space rocks that touch each other — orbiting the asteroid […]
Tornado sirens were heard across Milwaukee County Thursday as the National Weather Service issued a tornado warning for parts of the county. The warning expired at 5:45 p.m. and areas affected were parts of Milwaukee, Oak Creek, South Milwaukee, Cudahy and Franklin. “South Milwaukee was kind of in the center of the warning box,” said […]
Cabot, Arkansas — Just as the sun begins to set over the Walmart in Cabot, Arkansas, store janitor Bill Moczulewski begins walking to work for his overnight shift. He will trek five miles in each direction, two hours roundtrip, in any weather. “I don’t call out,” Moczulewski said. “I want to work.” A couple years ago, […]
Because phosphates lie at the heart of almost every chemical reaction in the human body, scientists from California-based Scripps research had a hunch that a phosphate process known as “phosphorylation” occurred earlier in Earth’s history than we previously realized. Exploring this theory, scientists recreated the conditions of early Earth and were able to transition fatty […]