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By Amen Galinato, CNN Six mysterious metal spheres that washed ashore last weekend at Forrest Beach in northern Queensland, Australia, are…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — If you happen to be right-handed, you may be able to trace the origins of that trait to a wormlike animal that…

By Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Wally Funk, a pioneering aviator who volunteered to be an astronaut for NASA’s “Women in…

By Mustafa Qadri, CNN (CNN) — For anyone who has ever wondered whether they could handle life on another planet, NASA is offering a chance to…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Pioneering gene-editing treatments are already in clinical use, saving lives and easing the pain of devastating…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Ancient DNA revealed that our species, Homo sapiens, once interbred with Neanderthals, but what was the nature of…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A sudden electricity crunch in the US, driven by artificial intelligence, is colliding headlong with the Trump…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who captivated the world when he flew around the moon alongside three American…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Nomadic warriors called the Scythians roamed the Eurasian Steppe on horseback during the Iron Age. An elite…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed “hobbits” due to their short stature, may have been scavengers,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mission to rescue one of NASA’s storied space observatories from falling to Earth has launched on a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New observations may offer fresh clues into how a giant exoplanet survived the violent death of its host star…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The balcony solar revolution is coming to the United States, but not everyone has been able to benefit. The nearly…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Every 40 seconds of nighttime for the next 10 years, a camera the size of a small car will capture strikingly…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Summer has barely started in the Northern Hemisphere, but already it’s offering an oppressive preview of life…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet’s oceans are at unprecedented temperatures for this time of year, breaking the all-time June…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s moon base plans, conceptualized just a few months ago, are rolling out in earnest as the space agency…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur remains…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The record-shattering June heat that’s baked Europe this week would have been “virtually impossible” just…

By Amen Galinato, CNN (CNN) — An iron cannonball that may have played a role in the 1836 Battle of the Alamo has been unearthed in Texas,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s heat endurance continues as multiple countries are braced for triple digit temperatures Thursday. The…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — When massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake shook Japan on March 11, 2011, the ground also made a more lasting move. About…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Relentless, deadly heat is tightening its grip on Europe, with temperature records expected to not just fall but…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Since most butterflies live a short time, fluttering between colorful flowers for a few weeks before dying, a…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A Roman villa with intricate mosaics has been unearthed on the outskirts of the Italian capital, in a…

By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Ealing, West London (CNN) — A few hundred feet from a McDonald’s and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and…

By Sam Peters, CNN London (CNN) — When knights of old went looking for Robin Hood, they knew where to find him. The legendary outlaw has been…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Ancient DNA recovered from cemeteries in southeast Siberia has revealed previously unknown strains of plague…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In a highly unusual move, the US Justice Department has urged a federal court to throw out a lawsuit against…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have detected evidence of cosmic-scale wind coming from a supermassive black hole at the…

By Mustafa Qadri, CNN (CNN) — A cyclone that brought catastrophic flooding and devastating landslides to Indonesia wiped out more than 7% of…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists who recently piloted a submersible to a remote spot in the southeastern Indian Ocean have…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something very…

By Shraddha Chakradhar, CNN (CNN) — Imagine a huge scorpion the size of a baseball bat, scrambling over mossy rocks and around large, treelike…

By Issy Ronald, Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — An Iron Age Scottish woman likely had her brains scooped out after she died as part of her burial,…