By Ashley Strickland, CNN A stellar nursery where stars are born, interactions between galaxies and a unique view of an exoplanet are just some of the new cosmic images were shared Tuesday. After decades of waiting, it’s finally time for the world to see the first images taken by the most powerful space telescope ever
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN A stellar nursery where stars are born, interactions between galaxies and a unique view of an exoplanet are just some of the new cosmic images were shared Tuesday. After decades of waiting, it’s finally time for the world to see the first images taken by the most powerful space telescope ever
Continue Reading By Rachel Fadem and Ashley Strickland, CNN July’s full moon, the buck moon, may illuminate the sky on Wednesday in a particularly big way. The buck moon will appear full from Tuesday morning to early Friday, according to NASA. It will reach its peak on Wednesday at 2:48 p.m. ET, but will not be fully
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first glimpse of how the James Webb Space Telescope will change the way people see the universe has arrived. President Joe Biden has released one of Webb’s first images, and it’s “the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date,” according to NASA. The image shows SMACS
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first glimpse of how the James Webb Space Telescope will change the way people see the universe has arrived. President Joe Biden has released one of Webb’s first images, and it’s “the deepest and sharpest infrared image of the distant universe to date,” according to NASA. The image shows SMACS
Continue Reading Story by Reuters United States Secretary of State Antony Blinken said on Saturday he had discussed Russian aggression in Ukraine during more than five hours of talks with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, and raised concerns over Beijing’s alignment with Moscow. Both diplomats described their first in-person talks since October as “candid”, with the meeting
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Get ready to see some awe-inspiring views of the universe as we’ve never seen it before. The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first high-resolution color images on July 12, one of which “is the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” according to NASA Administrator Bill
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Let’s venture to one of the few wild places left on the planet. An incredible diversity of species lives across the extremes of Patagonia — and we’re going to see them in a stunning new way. The CNN Original Series “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World” premieres at 9
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Let’s venture to one of the few wild places left on the planet. An incredible diversity of species lives across the extremes of Patagonia — and we’re going to see them in a stunning new way. The CNN Original Series “Patagonia: Life on the Edge of the World” premieres at 9
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN At the northern tip of Patagonia’s desert coast in Argentina, the skies above El Cóndor are filled with shifting clouds of chatty, colorful parrots. The mountain’s crumbling sandstone cliffs are home to the largest parrot colony in the world, containing 37,000 nests. The burrowing parrots are so named because they tunnel
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN At the northern tip of Patagonia’s desert coast in Argentina, the skies above El Cóndor are filled with shifting clouds of chatty, colorful parrots. The mountain’s crumbling sandstone cliffs are home to the largest parrot colony in the world, containing 37,000 nests. The burrowing parrots are so named because they tunnel
Continue Reading By Ashley Strickland, CNN Get ready to see some awe-inspiring views of the universe as we’ve never seen it before. The James Webb Space Telescope will release its first high-resolution color images on July 12, one of which “is the deepest image of our universe that has ever been taken,” according to NASA Administrator Bill
Continue Reading By Jack Guy, CNN Paleontologists in Argentina have discovered a new species of dinosaur, with disproportionately short arms like those of Tyrannosaurus rex. A fossil of Meraxes gigas, as the new dinosaur has been called, was found in what is now the northern Patagonia region of Argentina, revealing that the creature was 11 meters (36
Continue Reading Story by Reuters Italian rescue teams on Wednesday found the bodies of two more victims of the glacier collapse in the Alps that is feared to have killed up to 12 people and is being blamed on rising temperatures. At least nine people are now confirmed to have been killed in the avalanche on Sunday
Continue Reading By Megan Marples, CNN NASA has reestablished contact with one of its satellites that stopped communicating on its way to the moon. Engineers were able to contact the tiny CubeSat on Wednesday after it ceased communication with the Deep Space Network on Tuesday. The DSN is NASA’s radio antenna network that supports interplanetary spacecraft missions
Continue Reading By Hande Atay Alam, Ivana Kottasová, Angela Dewan and Rachel Ramirez, CNN European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of calling natural gas and nuclear power “green” or “sustainable” sources of energy, backing a proposal from European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, that has spurred criticism from scientists and environmental advocates. The new rules, if
Continue Reading By Hande Atay Alam, Ivana Kottasová, Angela Dewan and Rachel Ramirez, CNN European Union lawmakers voted Wednesday in favor of calling natural gas and nuclear power “green” or “sustainable” sources of energy, backing a proposal from European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, that has spurred criticism from scientists and environmental advocates. The new rules, if
Continue Reading By Tara John and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Covid-19 vaccine boosters might look a little different by the end of this year. US regulators advised manufacturers last week to update the Covid-19 vaccine in time for the fall booster program with new formulas that would better protect against the more infectious Omicron subvariants, which are dominating
Continue Reading By Tara John and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Covid-19 vaccine boosters might look a little different by the end of this year. US regulators advised manufacturers last week to update the Covid-19 vaccine in time for the fall booster program with new formulas that would better protect against the more infectious Omicron subvariants, which are dominating
Continue Reading Story by Reuters For months, Kazumi Sato, a nutritionist at a middle school in eastern Tokyo, has received notices about hikes in ingredient prices. Mindful of the economic hardships many of the students’ families face, local authorities are loath to pass the burden of pricier school lunches on to them. For Sato, that has meant
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