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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Get ready for a celestial double treat. The first full moon of the fall season will reach peak illumination…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — If the sight of a spider already makes your skin crawl, you might find the two sea spider species newly…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Sea turtles usually found in the tropics have been spotted nesting on California beaches — a historical first,…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Kent Hups set out one morning on a research expedition in the famed Hell Creek Formation, a series of…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Nearly half a million people across the world could lose their lives by February due to El Niño-driven extreme…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Charred to a crisp during Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in AD 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls lie tucked away…

By Deblina Chakraborty, CNN (CNN) — The moon’s surface experienced a violent encounter with a comet or an asteroid — and has a massive…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When birds are chirping, humans may feel a little more at ease. But some bird vocalizations seem to strike a…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A new analysis of the road network of the Roman Empire has dispelled the enduring myth that all roads lead to…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — If, like Elon Musk, you have been dreaming of a future in which large populations of humans can live on the moon,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The water cycle you were taught in school is being thrown off balance by fossil fuel pollution, bringing a host…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The catastrophic August flooding on the Nepal-China border was influenced by a complex cascade of factors, many…

By Kate S. Petersen, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill is pushing back on a seismic shift in US environmental…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have suspected for nearly 60 years that Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded. When a fossilized…

By Molly Finlay, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A stunning video capturing intricate cell movement in a child living with a rare genetic disorder…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Tiny feathers encased in fossilized poop are helping scientists understand why some birds made it through the mass…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has finalized the repeal of regulations that limit the amount of planet-heating…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An international team of scientists says it has detected an intriguing signal that could hint at evidence of dark…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The prehistoric remains of two foragers found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi contain telltale signs…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In the arid, inhospitable climate of western Iran’s Zagros Mountains, life has found a remarkable way to…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — As blistering temperatures baked London this summer, people started to notice strange things happening to their…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Telltale wrinkles that cover Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, suggest it was once a larger world that…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Earth just had its hottest August on record and tied the benchmark for the hottest month ever recorded since at…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The United States just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, soundly beating the summer of 1936…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Wildfires are ripping across parts of Indonesia, destroying precious peatland and smothering the country in a…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The largest dinosaurs that ever lived were able to reproduce at high latitudes — or regions far from the equator…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The sea level along California’s coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due to the influence of…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — One company has a simple-sounding plan to help save the planet: take a food additive and the mineral that makes…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is proposing the creation of a “United States Space Academy” designed to offer the…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The mundane work of clearing grass and stones in a backyard has led to the discovery of Denmark’s largest known…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A miles-long microalgae bloom in the Mediterranean Sea has been blamed for temporarily knocking offline many of…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Think of scientific research and you may picture white lab coats, microscopes or arrays of high-end equipment — but…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An ambitious mission to reveal the secrets of the least explored planet in the inner solar system is taking…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a long-running natural hazards program that aimed…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A massive observatory that scientists have called a “discovery machine” has launched toward the cosmos,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Living in the shadow of the world’s spectacular, ice-capped mountains has always carried dangers, but the…

By Amen Galinato, CNN (CNN) — August’s full sturgeon moon will align with a partial lunar eclipse, producing a stunning cosmic sight for…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Clues emerging from DNA could unlock the mystery of human ancestors that are missing from the fossil record yet…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX on Tuesday unveiled plans to construct a massive, $100 billion spaceport in Louisiana, where the company…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Last week the Trump administration announced major cuts to the water Arizona, California and Nevada can take…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In February 1998, almost a year’s worth of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles, as a series of powerful Pacific…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For the second week in a row, Hawaii is in the crosshairs of an intensifying tropical storm. As of 5 a.m. ET,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Arizona, California and Nevada will be forced to make deep cuts to the water they draw from the imperiled…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A 400-year-old grave held the body of a young woman, the rusted blade of a sickle over her throat and a padlock…