Popular theory about our galaxy’s fate might be wrong, astronomers say
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A collision between our Milky Way galaxy and its largest neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, predicted to occur…
Continue ReadingBy Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world’s glaciers are in dire health with almost 40% of their total mass already doomed, even if global…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For a long time, there has been a missing puzzle piece in Jerusalem’s history. Though ancient texts offered…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Deep below the surface of the ground in one of the driest parts of the country, there is a looming problem: The…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Gold and other precious metals are leaking from Earth’s core into the layers above, eventually making their way…
Continue ReadingBy Alysha Bibi and Diego Mendoza, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a nearly 3,000-year-old Mayan complex in Guatemala,…
Continue ReadingBy Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Researchers in central Spain say they may have uncovered one of the most ancient symbolic objects bearing a human…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they have discovered a roughly 2,300-year-old gold ring with a red gemstone…
Continue ReadingBy Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Last October, four female eastern lowland gorillas were airlifted from their home in Kasuhgo, the Democratic…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Attorneys general from 16 mostly Democrat-controlled US states filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration…
Continue ReadingBy Hilary Whiteman, CNN Brisbane, Australia (CNN) — Etched onto rocks on a remote peninsula in Western Australia are millions of images drawn…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — China has launched an ambitious mission to study two intriguing objects in our solar system, the likes of…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Global temperatures are forecast to reach record or near-record levels during the next five years, setting the…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected an astonishing celestial object emitting bright flashes of radio waves and X-rays…
Continue ReadingBy Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What scientists understand about the voracious feeding habits of the colossal megalodon could be up for some…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Forget marching in the streets with creative signs. For President Donald Trump’s second term, in the face of…
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By Rosa Rahimi and Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — Three tombs dating back thousands of years have been unearthed in an ancient Egyptian burial…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency is drafting a proposed regulation that would end all federal limits on…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An Anglo-Saxon ship found at the Sutton Hoo estate in Suffolk, England, has long captivated history…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a key component of a mysterious artifact at Sutton Hoo, a National Trust site…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Infection-causing fungi responsible for millions of deaths a year will spread significantly to new regions as…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have for the first time spotted two galaxies in the throes of a deep-space “duel.” Using combined…
Continue ReadingBy Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — A new study may have uncovered exactly what makes orange cats special — though it might not be for the reason…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On a remote, crescent-shaped island surrounded by crystal-clear ocean live some of the most plastic-contaminated…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Distinct clawed footprints found on a slab of 356 million-year-old rock from Australia suggest that reptile…
Continue ReadingBy Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Clownfish, a small orange and white species made famous by the “Finding Nemo” movies, have been found to shrink in…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The sensitive interior of human teeth might have originated from a seemingly unlikely place: sensory tissue…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When a fossil preserves an animal’s complete body in a death pose, seeing it is observing a snapshot in…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Ten gold bracelets, 17 cigar cases, a powder compact, a comb, and a whopping 598 gold coins: The items are all part…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world’s ice sheets are on course for runaway melting, leading to multiple feet of sea level rise and…
Continue ReadingBy Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Sometime between today and 200 years from now, scientists say “the big one” will hit the United States. There…
Continue ReadingBy Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — At first, behavioral ecologist Zoë Goldsborough thought the small figure seen on the back of a capuchin…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Last summer, an abandoned factory in southwest Memphis got a new life courtesy of the world’s…
Continue ReadingBy Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change should be considered a new core aspect of creditworthiness when prospective home buyers apply…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered evidence that four people, including a child, in the ancient Roman town of…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With the help of more than five dozen fossils, paleontologists have uncovered a tiny three-eyed predator…
Continue ReadingBy Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Beneath the rough waters of South Australia’s coast, marine archaeologists say they have discovered the lost…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Flooding on the US Northeast coast has risen significantly as a critical network of Atlantic Ocean currents…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of obsidian artifacts have revealed where the Aztecs acquired the volcanic glass they used for…
Continue ReadingBy Stephanie Elam, CNN (CNN) — The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum…
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By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from…
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By Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to…
Continue ReadingBy Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch…
Continue ReadingBy Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring,…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes, a great find is hiding right beneath one’s nose in the humblest of places: on paper.…
Continue ReadingBy Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in…
Continue ReadingBy Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the…
Continue ReadingBy Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising…
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