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…
Hello, Zhurong rover and Tianwen-1 lander. This selfie came from a remote camera set on the surface of Mars. CNSA This story is part of Welcome to Mars, our series…
NOAA’s GOES-16 satellite captured this view of Hurricane Ian south of Florida on Sept. 26, 2022. CIRA/RAMMB/NOAA Extreme weather and the ongoing impacts of the global climate crisis took a…
Record rains, brought on by a series of atmospheric river storms, hit the Central Coast and Santa Barbara County, causing damage and flooding at the popular Western-style Alisal Ranch and…
Our Milky Way’s center is normally hidden from standard, optical telescopes due to clouds of dust and gas. But the Spitzer Space Telescope’s infrared cameras penetrated much of the dust, revealing stars…
ShadowCam is a hypersensitive camera designed to see into shadowy areas of the moon, like the interior of Shackleton crater seen here. NASA/KARI/Arizona State University The moon doesn’t have a…
