Sign up for CNNs Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Space can be a violent place. Objectscrash into each o… [+5152 chars]
Ancient people would have been greeted with a huge wall of ice (Stock image/Getty) A wall of ice thousands of feet high would have blocked ancient people from entering America via a land bridge fro… [+3244 chars]
A team of physicists recently discovered a new phase of water ice, after they put ordinary ice under extraordinarily high pressure and melted it before letting it refreeze. The previously unknown pha… [+2957 chars]
After a large number of asteroids flew past the Earth last week, it appears the bombardment is not going to stop any time soon. There are more asteroids hurtling towards Earth, and the latest one amo… [+2219 chars]
Using a previously published and carefully curated 68-gene dataset, the scientists ran a battery of mathematical models to reconstruct the evolution of protein sequencesthe results of which, have bee… [+3959 chars]
image: Astronauts assigned for the Crew-4 Commercial Crew Program (CCP) mission, scheduled to launch in April 2022, include, left to right, NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins, Robert Bob Hines, and Kjel… [+17487 chars]
NASA has confirmed that there are more than 5,000 known planets outside our solar system, known as exoplanets. The US space agency has added another 65 exoplanets to the online NASA Exoplanet Archi… [+7565 chars]
image: These six cubes show the simulated distribution of galaxies at redshifts 9, 8, 5, 3, 2, and 1, with the corresponding cosmic ages shown. As the universe expands, the density of galaxies within… [+8193 chars]
New insight on the origins and early evolution of echinoids, a group that includes the sea urchins, the sand dollars, and their relatives, has been published today in the journal eLife.The study sugg… [+3889 chars]
This finely detailed image shows the heart of NGC 1097, a barred spiral galaxy that lies about 48 million light-years from Earth in the constellation Fornax. This picture reveals the intricacy of the… [+1917 chars]
Asteroid Ryugu could be a remnant of an extinct comet that spent tens of thousands of years racing through the solar system, new data suggests. Scientists believe it was then vaporised by high tempe… [+6783 chars]
Computers, smartphones, GPS: quantum physics has enabled many technological advances. It is now opening up new fields of research in cryptography (the art of coding messages) with the aim of developi… [+5661 chars]
