On August 20, 1977, NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched to space. Its twin, Voyager 1, launched 16 days later. Today, they are not only the most distant man-made objects — at 12 billion and 14.5 bil… [+4331 chars]
It was December 29 of last year when Ship 20 performed its fourth and final static fire test. That was the last time any Starship vehicle had performed a static fire test. However, Ship 24 is now bei… [+13547 chars]
ByNASAJuly 28, 2022 This illustration shows a concept for multiple robots that would team up to ferry to Earth samples collected from the Mars surface by NASAs Mars Perseverance rover. Credit: NASA/… [+6282 chars]
Sign up for CNNs Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. Over these last few days of July, two meteor showers w… [+3891 chars]
A farm in England was the unlikely source of a Jurassic jackpot: a treasure trove of 183 million-year-old fossils. On the outskirts of Gloucestershire in the Cotswolds, beneath soil that is currently… [+4297 chars]
A photographer has used his 3D printer to create an impressive 900mm reflector telescope that is so simple to put together that “its like assembling furniture from IKEA.” The design, which Jonathan… [+3882 chars]
Two skyscraper-size asteroids are zooming toward Earth this weekend, with one making its closest approach on Friday (July 29) and the second whizzing by on Saturday (July 30). The first asteroid , … [+2380 chars]
If you're a fan of stargazing, make sure you've got your eyes to the skies this evening. While the Delta Aquariids meteor shower officially peaks on Friday night, tonight is your best chance of seei… [+5419 chars]
How do small galaxies the basic building blocks of the universe gather masses? The ill-understood cosmic process can now become clearer to scientists thanks to a group of Indian astronomers who have… [+2652 chars]
The Orion Nebula, a famous star-forming region in the constellation Orion, appears to be leaking gas and dust from a tear in its gaseous shell discovered by NASA's flying telescope SOFIA. This expa… [+2348 chars]
Editors Note: Transcriptions of episodes of the Outside Podcast are created with a mix of speech recognition software and human transcribers, and may contain some grammatical errors or slight deviati… [+24553 chars]
A depiction of Earth, first without an inner core; second, with an inner core beginning to grow, around 550 million years ago; third, with an outermost and innermost inner core, around 450 million ye… [+5703 chars]
