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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Longtime NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is stepping away from his role at the space agency. The news comes months…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The grand stellar spectacle of the year — a total solar eclipse — dazzled the skies over parts of Europe…

By Amen Galinato, CNN Some sky-gazers may see a dazzling meteor shower coincide with a total solar eclipse in a rare celestial alignment this week.…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is ending federal support for the flagship annual report on the state of the Arctic…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Michael Zeiler is currently aboard the expedition ship Ocean Explorer, heading to the fjords of Greenland to…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was…

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — The first two months of summer in western Europe have been the hottest on record, the European Union’s climate…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A daring mission to rescue one of NASA’s crucial space observatories from falling to Earth has encountered…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A gravity-defying competition that brewed in the background of geopolitics for decades is now roaring to the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has fallen to a record low — yet another sign that the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An ambitious effort to boost an aging probe on its journey through the uncharted territory of interstellar…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The skies of Oklahoma City roared for six months in 1964 as military aircraft intentionally rattled the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s most powerful solar telescope has captured the highest resolution observations of the sun’s…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Relentless heat and a dearth of rain are having a punishing effect on some of Europe’s most vital rivers. The…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Sticky “hairs” on two plant species in the Saxifraga genus led famed British naturalist Charles Darwin to…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Part of a SpaceX rocket traveling at more than 5,000 miles per hour crashed into the moon early Wednesday…

By Jackie Wattles, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — Space exploration enthusiasts have been tracking the unprecedented journey of SpaceX’s latest…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The scintillating cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse will be visible to millions of people across…

By Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Bobcat Cave near Huntsville is home to the endangered Alabama cave shrimp, two species of cave crayfish and the southern…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — California, Arizona and Nevada will be required to slash their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s summer of extraordinary heat and drought has pushed some of its rivers to record lows, revealing…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could…

Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome (CNN) — The new trees meant to provide much-needed shade in Rome’s Piazza Risorgimento were burnt to a crisp.…

By Amen Galinato, CNN A double meteor shower peak will occur this week — but sky-gazers might have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The vast blazes ripping through southwestern France burned so intensely they created a powerful, fire-generated…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have revised the longstanding picture of “Nutcracker Man” — an extinct hominin, or human…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When astrobiologist Adam Frank walked into the office of NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt, he had what he believed…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — How hard do you have to ram a fish to make it explode? Ask an orca. Barreling into large, heavy fish with…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The combined water level in two of the United States’ biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, has…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As the number of satellites orbiting Earth continues to grow, so does the risk of crashes between these…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Houseboats lie perched on desiccated riverbeds, receding water levels have left wide stretches of newly exposed…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Putting your own mask on before assisting others was only supposed to be a safety instruction on an airplane,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Pompeii is often thought of as an undisturbed time capsule, a once-bustling port that fell silent after Mount…

By Kasha Patel, Chiara Negrello, CNN Scardovari, Italy (CNN) — As the sun was rising, two fisherwomen dragged their boat through the Scardovari…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When the Eaton fire swept through the Los Angeles neighborhood of Altadena last year, it claimed 19 lives and…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Bronze Age remains once thought to belong to a revered male metalworker are in fact female, new DNA analysis…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democratic…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A meteorite weighing more than 2 pounds (1 kilogram) that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home two…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the…

By Ella Nilsen, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered…