Artist illustration of TOI 700 e orbiting in the habitable zone of its star. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Robert Hurt Well, hello there! Astronomers have discovered a previously undetected Earth-size planet hanging out in…
This Perseverance rover image from Jan. 8, 2023 shows wheel tracks, rocks, dunes and the Ingenuity helicopter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Processing by Amanda Kooser/CNET This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our…
From left, astronaut Frank Rubio and cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin before their September launch. NASA/Victor Zelentsov There have been tense moments since Russia’s Soyuz MS-22, which is docked…
Xbox’s latest update is a welcome development but it doesn’t square with some of its other initiatives. Microsoft/Xbox Wire The biggest video game companies in the world have, in the…
The bird flu epidemic has led to an acute egg shortage. Karrastock While the world has been gripped by COVID-19, another epidemic has been cutting a swath through the US:…
An illustration of an ultracool dwarf star (front, red) with a companion white dwarf (back, white with blue haze). Getty Images It’s always a rare delight when astronomers stumble upon…
This Perseverance rover image from Jan. 8, 2023 shows wheel tracks, rocks, dunes and the Ingenuity helicopter. NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/Processing by Amanda Kooser/CNET This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our…
Starship 24 shows off what just one of its engines can do. Video screenshot by Amanda Kooser/CNET It’s been over a year and a half since we’ve seen a prototype…
Comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) as observed from Mount Fuji, Japan. SpaceWeatherGallery.com/Akihiro Yamazaki The new year is just over a week old, but a comet that’s expected to be the brightest…
The vaccine targets American Foulbrood, a deadly disease caused by a bacteria known as Paenibacillus larvae. Getty Images/NurPhoto The US Department of Agriculture has approved a vaccine for honeybees that…
