21-foot orca whale dead in Florida after getting beached
Authorities in Flagler County, Florida, are overseeing the removal of a 21-foot orca that beached itself on the coast. The orca, which beached itself and subsequently died on the coast…
NASA Finds Earth-Size World in Habitable Zone of ‘Exciting’ Solar System
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…
Try to Spot NASA’s Tiny Mars Helicopter in This Puzzling Rover Image
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…
NASA, Roscosmos Hatch New Plan to Bring Stranded ISS Crew Back to Earth
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, You’re Better Than This
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…
Egg Shortage: What’s Behind Soaring Prices – and When Will They Go Back Down?
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:…
For This Invisible Star System, One Year Is Only 20.5 Hours Long
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…
Mars Challenge: Spot the Tiny NASA Helicopter in This Rover Image
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…
Elon Musk Updates Timeline for Starship to Finally Launch to Space
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…
Green Comet Likely to Be Visible to Naked Eye Won’t Be Back for 50,000 Years
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…