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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have identified the remains of four members of a doomed 19th century expedition in the Arctic by…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have identified the remains of four members of a doomed 19th century expedition in the Arctic by…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On one day in late April, something very unusual happened. Every single one of the planet’s top 50 hottest…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the Arctic.…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have named a newly identified species of wasp after David Attenborough to honor the legendary…
Continue ReadingBy Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is doubling down on efforts to delay the buildout of wind energy, this time focusing on…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, Sam Hart, CNN (CNN) — The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Mexico City is sinking at such an alarming rate that it’s visible from the space. Imagery from a powerful NASA…
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By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — Early birds are in for a celestial treat this week as activity from the Eta Aquariid meteor shower heats up —…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Human children often copy their friends’ preferences for toys or clothes, while adults are prone to jumping on…
Continue ReadingBy Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers will be in for a treat this month with two full moons gracing the sky. The first, which has the…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A Massachusetts-based fusion company took another step this week in its race to become the first to get the same…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The moringa tree, known as the “miracle tree”, is one of the most nutrient-dense plants on the planet and is…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — “Terrain ahead. Pull up!” It’s a command that should only be heard in a disaster movie or flight simulator.…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Six of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies are on track to make almost $3,000 in profits every single…
Continue ReadingBy Stefano Pozzebon, Avery Schmitz, Abigail Watts, Jhasua Razo, CNN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (CNN) — It took 20 minutes for decades of family memories…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Curiosity rover has uncovered the most diverse array of organic molecules ever found on Mars, including…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Giant octopuses measuring up to 62 feet (19 meters) in length were among the top ocean predators around 100 million…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Congressmembers from both sides of the aisle are vowing to reject the White House’s proposal to slash NASA’s…
Continue ReadingBy Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Like the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Gibraltar, which lies between the southern tip of Europe and the…
Continue ReadingBy Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — After a more than three-month meteor shower drought, you can finally look to the skies again for a cosmic display.…
Continue ReadingBy Antoinette Radford, Billy Stockwell, Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of…
Continue ReadingBy Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf lies an ecological wonder. The highly contested Strait of Hormuz…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The critical system of ocean currents which loops around the Atlantic Ocean is weakening and could be far closer…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs,…
Continue ReadingBy Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — Camera traps have photographed a jaguar high up in the Honduran Sierra del Merendón mountain range, the first time…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (Houston) — It was a hero’s welcome for the four-person Artemis II crew following a textbook…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission, which…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II astronauts have faced down numerous dangers on their historic moon mission — including…
Continue ReadingBy Deblina Chakraborty, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Before four Artemis II astronauts strapped into their Orion capsule to soar toward the…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species toward the brink of extinction — the emperor penguin…
Continue ReadingBy Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high. In an Ipsos poll conducted last week just after…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As the Artemis II astronauts hurtled around the moon during their historic flyby, basking in unprecedented views…
Continue ReadingBy Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside —…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — It was a moment for the history books: The Artemis II mission performed its much anticipated…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are declaring their earliest water restrictions in history,…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As four astronauts soar deeper into space than humans have traveled in decades, a quarter million miles away,…
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? Those prehistoric creatures who met their end…
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