Earlier this week, China’s Chang’e 6 lunar probe landed in Inner Mongolia, delivering the first-ever samples collected from the far side of the Moon. The mission has the international scientific community excited — the far side of the Moon, which permanently faces away from the Earth, remains mysterious, with only China having touched down on […]
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Hundreds of basketball-size space rocks slam into Mars each year, leaving behind impact craters and causing rumblings across the red planet, according to new research. Mission planners could use the revelations, recorded in data collected by […]
A dozen employees at the Red Rocks Amphitheatre claim they saw a strange object light up the Colorado sky earlier this month, according to the National UFO Reporting Center. The observers, who said they work for the Morrison, Colorado venue, described a dark metallic disk that appeared north of the amphitheater at around 1 a.m. […]
China’s lunar probe has returned to Earth with the first ever samples from the Moon’s unexplored far side. The Chang’e-6 landed in the Inner Mongolia desert on Tuesday, after a nearly two-month long mission that was fraught with risks, state media report. Scientists are eagerly awaiting the Chang’e 6 as the samples could answer key […]
Scientists are interested in more than just the rocks NASA’s Perseverance rover has cached throughout its trek across Mars. They want the air, too. Since landing on Mars in 2021, Perseverance has collected 24 samples of Martian rock and dust, also known as regolith. These rock cores are believed to hold insight about the planet’s […]
DOTHAN, Ala. (WDHN) — A preliminary 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck the southeastern Caribbean Sea late Saturday night. The quake occurred about 20 miles northeast of Yaguaraparo, Venezuela, or 60 miles from Port of Spain, Trinidad, shortly before 12 a.m. local time, according to the USGS. About 4.4 million people in Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada, […]
Conventional wisdom holds that the island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, once had a large population that crashed after living beyond its means and stripping the island of resources. A new research study my colleagues and I conducted has struck another blow to this notion by using artificial intelligence to analyze satellite […]
A kite surfer was rescued after using rocks to spell out the word “help” when he became stranded on a Northern California beach last weekend, authorities have said. The kite surfer got stuck on Sunday on a narrow beach at the base of towering cliffs with the tide coming in, according to the California Department […]
A kite surfer stranded on a California beach used rocks to spell “HELP,” leading to his rescue Sunday, officials said. A private helicopter spotted the man on a beach south of Davenport Landing and called for what the sign made out of rocks asked —help. Video of the rescue was posted to social media by […]
BEIJING (AP) — China says a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth. The ascender of the Chang’e-6 probe lifted off Tuesday morning Beijing time and entered a preset orbit around the moon, the China […]
China said a spacecraft carrying rock and soil samples from the far side of the moon has lifted off from the lunar surface to start its journey back to Earth. The ascender of the Chang’e-6 probe lifted off on Tuesday and entered a preset orbit around the moon, the China National Space Administration said. The […]
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese spacecraft landed on the far side of the moon Sunday to collect soil and rock samples that could provide insights into differences between the less-explored region and the better-known near side. The landing module touched down at 6:23 a.m. Beijing time in a huge crater known as the South Pole-Aitken […]