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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…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mars has two tiny moons that lack a confirmed origin story for how they came to orbit the red planet — but…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A satellite called LINK that recently launched to boost the orbit of a falling space observatory won’t be…

By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New images from a NASA satellite orbiting the moon reveal a fresh, 60-foot-wide crater formed…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the United States, provides water and electricity to millions in…

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…