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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected an exoplanet with a highly oblong orbit that experiences wild temperature swings…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — More than 20,000 years ago in what’s now Argentina, some of the earliest people in the Americas encountered and…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The federal judge who approved the controversial Willow oil project last year tossed a separate Alaska offshore…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new live-streaming webcam allows viewers to see inside a so-called “mega-den” – home to hundreds of…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in southern Italy have identified a Roman fortification built to contain the slave revolt…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have long theorized the existence of lunar caves — underground passageways formed through volcanic…

By Amy Gunia, CNN (CNN) — As a child in Ivory Coast, West Africa, Tidiane Ouattara would gather with friends in his village to stargaze. The…

CNN By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Canadian rapper Drake shared a video of him wading through what appears to be his waterlogged Toronto mansion…

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Canadian rapper Drake shared a video of him wading through what appears to be his waterlogged Toronto mansion…

By Leah Asmelash, CNN (CNN) — How long does it take to reach Venus? For Missy Elliott’s “The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly),” it took nearly 14…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When a cruise liner-size asteroid comes within 19,883 miles (32,000 kilometers) of Earth on April 13, 2029,…

By Isaac Yee, CNN (CNN) — It’s a creature of the deep so rare that there’s never been a recorded live sighting, and since the 1800s only…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming they’re actually messing with time, according…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — During the Cretaceous Period, a genus of sharks roamed the sea with rows of unusual teeth. Mostly large and…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — A unique plant has become the first species in the United States to be exterminated from the wild by the…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — A marvel of the “Dune” sci-fi film franchise is the survival outfit worn by the desert-dwelling Fremen —…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a stunning new view of two galaxies, nicknamed the Penguin and…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Keeping the power on can be the difference between life and death, a scenario bearing out this week in Houston as…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Writings on an ancient clay tablet have allowed experts to reconstruct a Bronze Age ship made of reeds and…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s stalwart Falcon 9 rocket, which powers satellite launches as well as trips to orbit for astronauts,…

Story by Associated Press Mexico City (CNN) — Heavy rains associated with Hurricane Beryl and the earlier Tropical Storm Alberto have led at…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists in Western Australia have found a tree frog which is bright blue, rather than the usual green, due to a…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A piece of woolly mammoth skin excavated from the Siberian permafrost has been found to contain fossil…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed the remains of what they believe are a 4,000-year-old temple and theater,…

By Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — A group of 120 scientists, engineers and academics have penned an open letter calling on the Paris Olympics’…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two lion brothers, including one with an amputated leg, were spotted making a record-breaking night swim…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft and its crew have been in space for more than a month — much longer than the…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The oldest known plague victims date back to around 5,000 years ago in Europe. But it’s never been clear whether…

By Louis Mian, CNN London (CNN) — A previously unknown species of plant-eating dinosaur roamed on an island off the south coast of England…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The European Space Agency’s member countries have endured a months-long space access predicament while waiting…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — About half a billion years ago, a volcanic eruption near a shallow sea in what’s now Morocco preserved some…

By Lex Harvey and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Would you like that burger medium rare, well-done, or lab-grown? Researchers in South Korea say…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Atacama Desert in northern Chile is one of the driest places on Earth, but swaths of its usually barren sand…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An exoplanet the size of Jupiter has long intrigued astronomers because of its scorching temperatures,…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The eyed needle — a sewing tool made of bones, antlers or ivory that first appeared around 40,000 years ago in…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The grasslands, glaciers and snow-tipped peaks of the Tibetan Plateau are breathtaking, but the vast expanse in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When NASA scientists recently tracked the orbits of two space rocks as they made close approaches of Earth,…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Set atop a hill on the Italian island of Sicily, Agrigento is a heritage tourist’s paradise. Beneath the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A massive, fanged creature with a head shaped like a toilet seat lurked in swamps near the edge of the world…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Deep inside Earth is a solid metal ball that rotates independently of our spinning planet, like a top whirling…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Hippos can get airborne when moving at high speeds over land, according to a new study. This is the first time that…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When Hurricane Ida battered Louisiana with catastrophic flooding and powerful winds in August 2021, more than 1…

By Katie Hunt and Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Up a rocky cliff face, through a narrow opening, and at the end of a snaking passage lies a painting…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Humans aren’t the only ones capable of performing amputations to save lives. Florida carpenter ants have…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Denisovans survived and thrived on the high-altitude Tibetan plateau for more than 100,000 years, according to a new…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In the first week of a new Trump administration, President Joe Biden’s climate wins would get put through the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Grapes have been intertwined with the story of humanity for millennia, providing the basis for wines produced…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Earthquakes, caused by the shifting of Earth’s tectonic plates, have the potential to transform the face of…

By Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — The government of China now possesses something that no other humans have ever encountered — rocks and soil…