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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…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Painted lady butterflies venture far and wide with their impressive migratory patterns that stretch…

By Nic Anderson, CNN (CNN) — Molly Parren was tracking a wood turtle in Vermont when she smelled something surprising, yet familiar. The…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — History is full of vanished arts and techniques that researchers are still trying to crack, such as…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of basketball-size space rocks slam into Mars each year, leaving behind impact craters and causing…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — More than three weeks into a mission that was initially projected to last only days, the two astronauts piloting…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Performing administrative tasks in ancient Egypt may not sound physically demanding, but new research has…

CNN By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — The soft, pink blob stares at the camera with glassy eyes — before pulling its face into a dimpled smile.…

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — The soft, pink blob stares at the camera with glassy eyes — before pulling its face into a dimpled smile.…

By Lex Harvey, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The world’s largest capital cities are seeing more extremely hot days than ever, according to a new…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests that the space rock had an…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The iconic puffy white suits that astronauts have donned for decades as they step outside the International…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A fossilized ear bone unearthed in a cave in Spain has revealed a Neanderthal child who lived with Down syndrome…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Unprecedented ocean heat has triggered the world’s worst mass coral bleaching event on record – a coral…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA will pay SpaceX up to nearly $1 billion to develop a vehicle capable of steering the International Space…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A lone diver first laid eyes on the ancient Kyrenia shipwreck off the north coast of Cyprus nearly 60 years ago.…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For thousands of years, one color rose above all others — and was worth more than its weight in gold,…

By Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor, CNN London (CNN) — When New Yorkers grab their morning coffee, it’s their electric grid that…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Forecasters will soon be able to see real-time mapping of lightning activity on Earth and keep a closer eye…