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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The record-shattering June heat that’s baked Europe this week would have been “virtually impossible” just…

By Amen Galinato, CNN (CNN) — An iron cannonball that may have played a role in the 1836 Battle of the Alamo has been unearthed in Texas,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s heat endurance continues as multiple countries are braced for triple digit temperatures Thursday. The…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — When massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake shook Japan on March 11, 2011, the ground also made a more lasting move. About…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Relentless, deadly heat is tightening its grip on Europe, with temperature records expected to not just fall but…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Since most butterflies live a short time, fluttering between colorful flowers for a few weeks before dying, a…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A Roman villa with intricate mosaics has been unearthed on the outskirts of the Italian capital, in a…

By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Ealing, West London (CNN) — A few hundred feet from a McDonald’s and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and…

By Sam Peters, CNN London (CNN) — When knights of old went looking for Robin Hood, they knew where to find him. The legendary outlaw has been…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Ancient DNA recovered from cemeteries in southeast Siberia has revealed previously unknown strains of plague…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In a highly unusual move, the US Justice Department has urged a federal court to throw out a lawsuit against…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have detected evidence of cosmic-scale wind coming from a supermassive black hole at the…

By Mustafa Qadri, CNN (CNN) — A cyclone that brought catastrophic flooding and devastating landslides to Indonesia wiped out more than 7% of…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists who recently piloted a submersible to a remote spot in the southeastern Indian Ocean have…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something very…

By Shraddha Chakradhar, CNN (CNN) — Imagine a huge scorpion the size of a baseball bat, scrambling over mossy rocks and around large, treelike…

By Issy Ronald, Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — An Iron Age Scottish woman likely had her brains scooped out after she died as part of her burial,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Tuesday revealed the four astronauts who will join the next Artemis mission — a key, two-week flight…

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — More than 132 feet below sea level, a diver was removing abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck in the…

By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — A new image showcases a dazzling celestial object — a star, paired with another, in the throes of dying that…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Ötzi the Iceman, the well-preserved and well-studied mummy of a man who died 5,300 years ago, is a “dynamic…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A total solar eclipse will create a celestial spectacle in the sky for the first time in more than two years…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Determined researchers have found East Asia’s tallest known tree in a secluded valley near one of…

By Katie Hunt, Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — When the World Cup starts next week, no one will be watching the pitch more closely than John Trey…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how…

By Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Scientists across multiple disciplines are sounding the alarm after the White House proposed…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — An amateur metal detectorist unearthed an “extraordinary” gold ring dating back to Roman times in a field in…

By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A Democratic senator is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s plans to let several private energy…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Experts advise that adults should sleep for around eight uninterrupted hours in a cool, dark room. If you do so…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific in January 2022, it sent a plume of ash, steam and gas…

By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — You’ve probably heard the phrase “once in a blue moon.” Maybe you’ve even used it to describe an…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What does it mean to be alive? A new study on an astonishing sea creature suggests the answer may be more…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have long hailed Tyrannosaurus rex as king of the dinosaurs. Now, the name “T. rex” also…

By Laura Paddison, CNN The Dead Sea (CNN) — The motorboat cut through the aquamarine water of the Dead Sea, past dazzling-white formations…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — For years, the federal government has been working on turning old, unexploded warheads left over from the Cold War…