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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,…

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — Camera traps have photographed a jaguar high up in the Honduran Sierra del Merendón mountain range, the first time…

By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (Houston) — It was a hero’s welcome for the four-person Artemis II crew following a textbook…

By Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission, which…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II astronauts have faced down numerous dangers on their historic moon mission — including…

By Deblina Chakraborty, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Before four Artemis II astronauts strapped into their Orion capsule to soar toward the…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species toward the brink of extinction — the emperor penguin…

By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high. In an Ipsos poll conducted last week just after…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As the Artemis II astronauts hurtled around the moon during their historic flyby, basking in unprecedented views…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from…

By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside —…

By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — It was a moment for the history books: The Artemis II mission performed its much anticipated…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are declaring their earliest water restrictions in history,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As four astronauts soar deeper into space than humans have traveled in decades, a quarter million miles away,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Awe-inspiring new photos captured by the Artemis II astronauts showcase the moon and the interior of the…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage.…

By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission is now headed back toward Earth, with four astronauts…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A warship that sunk after it was attacked by Adm. Horatio Nelson and the British fleet 225 years ago has been…

By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has shown how easy it is to for one country to turn…

By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four…

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Sky watchers caught the spring season’s first full moon rising in the night sky. April’s full pink moon peaked…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Several high-ranking Trump officials that make up the so-called “God Squad” voted on Tuesday to quash…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — There is nothing more thrilling than seeing a spacecraft launch — especially on a journey to the moon. More…