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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s colossal Starship launch system lifted off on its seventh uncrewed test flight…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial…

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As the winds die down and firefighters seize control of the deadly infernos that have scorched more than 60 square…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX has turned heads and tested boundaries with each test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket system…

By Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — The fires that have ravaged Los Angeles over the past week were larger and burned hotter than they would have in a…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday carrying a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday carrying a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The past few years have marked the advent of a new lunar space race, with a fleet of robotic spacecraft from…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Keep an eye on the sky Monday evening to see the wolf moon, the first full moon of the year. And some…

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Environmental activists in the UK painted Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey on Monday with the…

By Jacopo Prisco and Evan John, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with a third aged over 65, and one in 10 aged over…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has called off a second attempt to launch its…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Nearly a quarter century after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the rocket company is poised for its most…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long)…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Hardening a home against wildfires doesn’t need to take thousands of dollars for a fire-resistant roof or siding,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It’s official: 2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023 and pushing the…

By Mary Gilbert and Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — Southern California was under water less than a year ago. A siege of torrential rain from…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland, the Arctic island his father, President-elect Donald Trump,…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured hearts worldwide in 2018 by carrying her dead calf for 17…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will declare two new national monuments in California on Tuesday in what will be one of his…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A group of potentially toxic “forever chemicals,” mostly coming from prescribed drugs, may be contaminating…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — On a Florida launchpad that has been dormant for almost two decades, a new, roughly 320-foot (98-meter) rocket…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Exploring space has opened our eyes to numerous wonders, but these cosmic feats haven’t come without…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An unknown volcano erupted so explosively in 1831 that it cooled Earth’s climate. Now, nearly 200 years…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The new year kicks off with the peak of the Quadrantids, one of the strongest meteor showers of the year,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the arrival of a new year comes plenty of opportunities to witness a bevy of celestial events that will…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A toothy toadstool. A vegetarian piranha with a distinctive mark. And a pygmy pipehorse floating in the Indian Ocean…

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — Late one summer night in 2023, Kei Jokura entered the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts,…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The first time Laura Muckenhoupt felt a glimmer of hope after the death of her 22-year-old son Miles was the drive…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — A marine heat wave has killed approximately half of Alaska’s common murre population, marking the largest…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — This year, scientists were able to pull back the curtain on mysteries surrounding figures across history,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Super Heavy rocket booster as tall as a 20-story building reappeared in the skies over South Texas…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Mount Tambora changed the world. In 1815, the Indonesian volcano exploded in the most powerful eruption in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Parker Solar Probe zoomed by the sun on Tuesday during a record-breaking flyby, coming within 3.8 million…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Dozens of luxury condos, hotels and other buildings in southeast Florida are sinking at a surprising rate,…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the limestone plateau in the United Kingdom’s Mendip Hills is famed for its natural beauty. But around…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look up to see the Ursid meteor shower, the final celestial display of the year, on Sunday morning. The…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Charred to a crisp, the hundreds of brittle ancient scrolls would crumble if one were to attempt to unfurl them, and…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a three-word energy policy: “Drill, baby, drill.” But his cabinet…

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Researchers on an expedition in Peru have discovered 27 animal species new to science – among them a…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A small silver amulet discovered by archaeologists in Germany could transform our understanding of how…