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By Ella Nilsen, Amy O’Kruk, Samuel Hart, CNN (CNN) — The current war in the Middle East has sent the price of oil spiking — and with it, US…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense…

By Sam Peters, CNN (CNN) — Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — There was a decisive winner to the Lower 48 states’ split screen winter — a battle between frigid cold in…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Is the world getting hotter, faster? It’s a big question which has been puzzling and dividing scientists for…

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way,…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists are one step closer to understanding the origins of complex life on Earth after shedding new light…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Sea levels along the world’s coastlines are much higher than previously assumed, more than 3 feet in some…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A total lunar eclipse is turning the moon a deep reddish-orange on Tuesday for sky-gazers in Asia, Australia, the…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — In the waters off Singapore, a recently uncovered a shipwreck with a huge cargo of blue-and-white porcelain is…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Efforts to get NASA’s historic moon mission off the ground have stalled once again, as engineers navigate a…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When scientists with the National Center for Wildlife in Saudi Arabia were surveying caves in search of wildlife…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The botched test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — a protracted saga that kept two astronauts in…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — If all had gone according to plan, four astronauts might have been returning just this week from a…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A “ring of fire” solar eclipse on Tuesday will mark the first eclipse of 2026, but only about 2% of the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, bringing the…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration delivered a deadly blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When solar storms erupt from the sun and reach Earth, their intensity is measured against a historical…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating…

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Team USA won silver in mixed doubles curling on Tuesday after reaching the event’s final for the first time during…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical…

By Laura Paddison, Samuel Hart, CNN (CNN) — Jessie Diggins is an endurance athlete. The Olympic cross-country skier describes the intensity of…

By Jackie Wattles, Hadas Gold, John Liu, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat to a…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Recreating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When plant biologist Jing-Yi Lu was earning his bachelor’s degree in Taiwan, he began to take note of the…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Some 400 million years ago, long before dinosaurs or even trees had evolved, an enigmatic organism towered over the…

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — In an idyllic corner of an English field, beneath the lush green grass and yellow buttercups sprouting in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — There is nothing like the excitement of a rocket launch. I’ll never forget the feeling of being at NASA’s…

By Katie Hunt, Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA is now targeting March for the earliest possible launch of its historic…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday dealt a fifth blow to the Trump administration’s attempts to kill the offshore wind…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Electricity costs are climbing nearly everywhere in the United States. But, in recent months, the Trump…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look to the sky this weekend for a chance to see February’s wintry full moon, which comes as four…