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Sun's mysterious pole and a 'solar hedgehog' revealed in closest-ever images of the sun

A new record-breaking set of images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter probe during its close pass of the star in March has been released, revealing a plethora of never-before-seen details, including a curious geyser of gas scientists have nicknamed ...

Boeing's Starliner rolls to launch pad on Atlas V rocket for critical NASA test flight

Boeing is one of two companies with multibillion-dollar contracts to fly NASA astronauts to and from the International Space Station. The other company is SpaceX, which has been flying astronaut missions to the station for NASA since May 2020.

Building a better black hole with supercomputer simulations

Astronomers used a perhaps unlikely tool to understand what they saw in their historic first image of the Milky Way's supermassive black hole: a library of computer simulations that mimic the black hole with millions of variations.

Solar Orbiter reveals a never-before-seen look at our sun

The mission, a joint effort between NASA and the European Space Agency, captured views of powerful flares and coronal mass ejections and perspectives of the unexplored solar poles. The orbiter even spied a new feature nicknamed the "hedgehog." ...

Mystery issue experienced on NASA's Voyager 1 probe from 1977

Sign up for CNN's Wonder Theory science newsletter. Explore the universe with news on fascinating discoveries, scientific advancements and more. (CNN) The Voyager 1 probe is still exploring interstellar space 45 years after launching, ...

Voyager 1 glitch? NASA working to understand strange data from venerable probe

Spending 45 years traversing the solar system really does a number on a spacecraft. NASA's Voyager 1 mission launched in 1977, passed into what scientists call interstellar space in 2012 and just kept going — the spacecraft is now 14.5 billion miles ...

InSight mission's fate sealed by Martian dust

This photo shows a solar panel on InSight covered in dust on April 24, 2022. Due to decreasing power levels, the mission will end science operations by this summer. It will end completely by 2022's end. Image via NASA/ JPL-Caltech.

Black Hole Collision Might've Sent Invisible Monster Hurtling Through Space

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CNET

Two black holes might've merged with enough power to blast the resulting void out of the entire galaxy. Getty Images. For the past few days, ...

Tonga volcano blasted winds to the edge of space

The Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption on January 15, 2022, sent shock waves rippling through Earth's oceans and atmosphere. Its massive global effects will go down in history, scientists said. They said Tonga's eruption dwarfed the biggest nuclear ...

Prehistoric tooth of young girl found in Laos could help us understand modern human evolution

USA TODAY

USA TODAY

"When we found the tooth, we were astonished because we weren't looking for Denisovans or even anticipating this type of discovery," Laura Shackelford, co-author and paleoanthropologist at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, told USA TODAY via ...