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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — An almost complete battle trumpet dating back around 2,000 years to the Iron Age has been unearthed by in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Burned bone fragments found in northern Malawi have revealed the oldest cremation pyre ever found in Africa…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — The wolf moon, the first full moon of the year, will ring in 2026, gracing the sky this weekend, but the lunar…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally…

By Maggie Koerth, CNN (CNN) — This year is not a particularly white Christmas. Across the United States, families are gathering to enjoy a walk…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In the latest blow to the US offshore wind industry, the Trump administration announced Monday it is suspending the…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Residents of mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent years plagued by high…

By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Iraq, the historic “land between two rivers,” faces a crisis striking at its identity as the Tigris and…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, just…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Ursid meteor shower, which marks the final celestial event of the year, will peak between Sunday night…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Along with its many other innovations, the Roman Empire revolutionized architecture with never-before-seen…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An interstellar comet first spotted passing through our solar system in July is beginning its departure from…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A Blue Origin rocket will soon launch carrying an unconventional passenger in a history-making moment made…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A monthslong saga featuring tech billionaire Jared Isaacman — President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN NEW ORLEANS (CNN) — Stress balls were the swag item of choice at the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s booth…

By Chris Mooney, Yumi Asada (CNN) — Bathtubs and pools mislead us about the ocean: Its surface is anything but flat. Seas pile up in some…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins off the coast of British Columbia have been observed cooperating with orcas, a…

By Chris Mooney Planet-warming pollution rates exploded after the end of World War II. James Watt’s steam engine launched the Industrial Revolution…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and…

By Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its website that…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Swirling underwater “storms” are aggressively melting the ice shelves of two vital Antarctic glaciers, with…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone.…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Standing in Arizona’s largest dry lakebed, Wilcox Playa, astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy steadied himself as…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A high-traffic “dinosaur freeway” may have once stretched across a shoreline in what is now Bolivia.…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of…

By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Keep your eyes high in the sky this week to see the last supermoon of the year. December’s full supermoon, also…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A rare spectacle played out on Capitol Hill as Jared Isaacman — the billionaire tech entrepreneur and Elon…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ended November 30, showcased the growing capabilities of…

By Simone McCarthy, Mike Valerio, Fred He, John Liu, CNN Beijing (CNN) — A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Rows of worshippers, some with their faces raised toward the sky, others with their heads bowed, prayed for rain…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have…

By Brad Lendon, Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN (CNN) — A launch pad at Russia’s main space complex was damaged during Thursday’s launch of a…