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New York City is sinking at a rate of a half-foot per century.A new study released last Wednesday by a NASA-led research team used high-resolution satellite images to analyze the ground elevation of the approximately 300 square miles of New York City. This research was ostensibly following up a separate study published in May that hypothesized…

This new image from the James Webb Space Telescope's NIRCam short-wavelength channel shows the Orion nebula, its stars, and many other objects in unprecedent high definition in the near infrared. (Image credit: NASA, ESA, CSA / Science leads and image processing: M. McCaughrean, S. Pearson, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)The James Webb Space Telescope  has…

SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH, Utah — Officials in Utah are telling residents to prepare now for scarce supplies ahead of the annular eclipse that will be sweeping across most of the state on Oct. 14.The Utah Division of Emergency Management said hotels and other lodging in the southeastern county of San Juan are reporting 95-100%…

The sample return capsule from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is seen shortly after touching down in the desert on September 24, 2023, at the Department of Defense’s Utah Test and Training Range. The sample was collected from the asteroid Bennu in October 2020 by NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber<span…

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN  —  After a nearly 4 billion-mile round trip, the…

If you thought Australia’s spiders were scary, wait until you see the prehistoric version.Scientists have found a fossilised giant trapdoor spider in New South Wales, only the fourth specimen of its kind to be found in Australia.The creature would have roamed and hunted in the surrounding areas which were once a lush rainforest, researchers said…

Next year, NASA plans to scoop up a small batch of dirt from an asteroid named Bennu, located millions of miles from Earth — and now the agency knows which part of the space rock it’s going to steal from. Today, the space agency announced that one of its spacecraft will attempt to grab some particles from a 20-meter-wide crater, called…

In 1687, Isaac Newton formulated his laws of motion and universal gravity, bringing the movement of distant stars, moons, and planets into focus.With the stroke of his quill, Newton's pioneering work also triggered a centuries-long search for mathematical solutions to rein in chaotic triple systems, such as the Sun, Moon, and Earth, which…

It's launch day!SpaceX's Starlink 6-17 mission, which is slated to send 22 more Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit, is targeted for liftoff at 10:47 p.m. EDT Tuesday, Sept. 19.If needed, four backup launch opportunities are available between 11:38 p.m. and 1:46 a.m. EDT Wednesday, Sept. 20.The batch of Starlink internet satellites is packed…

We don’t want to alarm anyone, but the sun is broken. A section of the sun has left the surface and begun circulating around the top of the star as if it were a huge polar vortex, and it’s not exactly clear why it’s happened.The observation was made possible thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, and its no surprise that it piqued the…