Science & Discovery Archives

See Jupiter through the eyes of the world’s most powerful telescope

August 22, 2022 3:00 PM CNN Newsource

Rainbow auroras, giant storms and far-off galaxies are all on display in the latest images of Jupiter from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope.

Scientists want to resurrect the extinct Tasmanian tiger

August 20, 2022 10:32 AM CNN Newsource

Where would we be without dreams?

Unexpected discovery could make story of very early humans ‘more real,’ scientists say

August 5, 2022 4:00 PM CNN

Research on ancient footprints has previously challenged what’s known about when people arrived in North America, and a new discovery could shed more light on the story.

How psilocybin, the psychedelic in mushrooms, may rewire the brain to ease depression, anxiety and more

July 16, 2022 3:02 PM CNN

Shrooms, Alice, tweezes, mushies, hongos, pizza toppings, magic mushrooms — everyday lingo for psychedelic mushrooms seems to grow with each generation

Webb’s Telescope captures new Jupiter Moon

July 15, 2022 9:11 AM Chelsie Burroughs, CNN

NASA’s James Webb space telescope team unveiled the mission’s first science-quality images featuring Jupiter’s rings, moons, and more on Tuesday.

MUST SEE VIDEO: NASA reveals first full-color images from Webb telescope

July 12, 2022 9:03 AM NBC News

NASA unveiled the first full-color image from the most powerful telescope ever made on Monday, giving astronomers and space enthusiasts the best look at a galaxy far, far away.

How the climate crisis is forever changing our national parks

July 10, 2022 3:28 PM CNN

– When Garrett Dickman drove through Yosemite National Park early this week, he passed through a diverse band of large trees — conifer, red fir, lodgepole pine — and noticed a grim pattern: many of the trees were either dead or dying.

NASA reestablishes contact with a satellite after losing connection when it left Earth’s orbit

July 6, 2022 2:01 PM CNN

NASA has reestablished contact with one of its satellites that stopped communicating on its way to the moon.

NASA: Contact lost with spacecraft on way to test moon orbit

July 5, 2022 1:00 PM The Associated Press

NASA said Tuesday it has lost contact with a $32.7 million spacecraft headed to the moon to test out a lopsided lunar orbit, but agency engineers are hopeful they can fix the problem.

NASA satellite breaks from orbit around Earth, heads to moon

July 4, 2022 5:50 AM The Associated Press

A satellite the size of a microwave oven successfully broke free from its orbit around Earth on Monday and is headed toward the moon, the latest step in NASA’s plan to land astronauts on the lunar surface again.

VIDEO: SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches 53 Starlink Satellites

June 17, 2022 2:15 PM CBS News

(CBS) – SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 53 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. SpaceX kicked off a Falcon 9 triple header Friday, launching 53 more Starlink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center while gearing up for launch of a German radar reconnaissance satellite Saturday from

Scientists grow plants in lunar dirt, next stop moon

May 12, 2022 11:17 AM The Associated Press

Scientists for the first time have grown plants in soil from the moon collected by NASA’s Apollo astronauts.

Amazon to grow solar footprint in Yuma County

April 20, 2022 10:07 AM Dillon Fuhrman, Wiley Jawhary

Amazon announced 37 new renewable energy projects around the world, with Yuma County being one of them.

The European Space Agency will not be working with Russia

March 25, 2022 12:48 PM CNN Newsource

The European Space Agency may seek closer ties with NASA on its upcoming missions.

Coral reef discovery

January 20, 2022 5:17 PM Mercedes Martinez

Scientists discover an untouched coral reef in Tahiti.

James Webb Space Telescope successfully unfolds its giant gold mirror in space

January 8, 2022 11:22 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Just 14 days after launching, the world’s most complex space observatory has already overcome some of its greatest challenges. The James Webb Space Telescope successfully completed the unfolding of its giant gold mirror on Saturday. “I am so proud of the team — spanning continents and decades — that delivered this

Look up as the Quadrantid meteor shower puts on a show in the new year

January 2, 2022 6:06 AM CNN Newsource

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The new year kicks off with the Quadrantid meteor shower, which is expected to peak in the overnight hours from Sunday to Monday. The Quadrantids are typically among the strongest meteor showers of the year. Fortunately, a waxing crescent moon phase will practically render the moon invisible overnight, allowing for peak

2021 to be remembered as the year space tourism took flight

December 27, 2021 5:18 PM NBC News

From New Mexico to Texas to Florida..put 2021 down as the year the private space race came roaring off the pad.

How long it takes 50 common items to decompose

December 24, 2021 8:33 PM Stacker

Stacker looks at how long it takes for the things people throw away to decompose. From a few days to millions of years, find out the decomposition rates of the most commonly trashed household items.

Perfectly preserved baby dinosaur discovered curled up inside its egg

December 21, 2021 9:00 AM CNN Newsource

By Katie Hunt, CNN An unprecedented fossil of a baby dinosaur curled up perfectly inside its egg is shedding more light on the links between dinosaurs and birds. The 70-million-year-old fossil preserves the embryonic skeleton of an oviraptorid dinosaur, which has been nicknamed Baby Yingliang after the name of the Chinese museum which houses the