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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Five months into his fourth International Space Station mission, veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke was having…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists may have finally solved the riddle of Tyrannosaurus rex’s small arms, which have always stood out as…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — New Orleans is locked into a watery future which could see it surrounded by ocean as early as this century,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After a seven-month hiatus, SpaceX is set to launch a new, more powerful version of its Starship megarocket —…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Deep in the ocean is a worm that makes its home inside a “glass castle,” a mysterious “ghost shark” and…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The coming “Super” El Niño is poised to affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide as it…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 91,593…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The discovery of some bones at the edge of a pond in Thailand a decade ago has led to the identification of a new…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An unusual tooth found in a cave offers a rare glimpse into a surprising procedure prehistoric humans might…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have identified the remains of four members of a doomed 19th century expedition in the Arctic by…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On one day in late April, something very unusual happened. Every single one of the planet’s top 50 hottest…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the Arctic.…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have named a newly identified species of wasp after David Attenborough to honor the legendary…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is doubling down on efforts to delay the buildout of wind energy, this time focusing on…

By Ella Nilsen, Sam Hart, CNN (CNN) — The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska…

By 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…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned…

By 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…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from…

By 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…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it…

By 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…

By Stefano Pozzebon, Avery Schmitz, Abigail Watts, Jhasua Razo, CNN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (CNN) — It took 20 minutes for decades of family memories…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Curiosity rover has uncovered the most diverse array of organic molecules ever found on Mars, including…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Giant octopuses measuring up to 62 feet (19 meters) in length were among the top ocean predators around 100 million…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Congressmembers from both sides of the aisle are vowing to reject the White House’s proposal to slash NASA’s…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Like the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Gibraltar, which lies between the southern tip of Europe and the…

By 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.…

By Antoinette Radford, Billy Stockwell, Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing…

By 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…

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf lies an ecological wonder. The highly contested Strait of Hormuz…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The critical system of ocean currents which loops around the Atlantic Ocean is weakening and could be far closer…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs,…