Two years after its first flight, Ingenuity helicopter goes for 50 on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Ingenuity helicopter just achieved a huge milestone on Mars. The little chopper successfully completed its…
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Two years after its first flight, Ingenuity helicopter goes for 50 on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Ingenuity helicopter just achieved a huge milestone on Mars. The little chopper successfully completed its…
Continue ReadingPaper airplane designed by Boeing engineers breaks world distance record
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by…
Continue ReadingJuice mission launches to explore Jupiter’s icy ocean worlds
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The European Space Agency has sent a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. The…
Continue ReadingJuice mission launches to explore Jupiter’s icy ocean worlds
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The European Space Agency has sent a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. The…
Continue ReadingThe Juice mission will soon launch to Jupiter’s icy ocean worlds
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The European Space Agency is about to send a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing…
Continue ReadingWebb telescope captures ‘green monster’ inside a young supernova
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has spied colorful, never-before-seen details in one of the most well-observed remnants of…
Continue Reading3,000-year-old hairs hold the oldest clues about psychoactive drug use in Europe
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Scientists have discovered direct evidence that people in Europe used psychoactive drugs during the Bronze Age, possibly as…
Continue ReadingRescue workers race to save 400 migrants adrift on boat in Mediterranean sea
By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Allegra Goodwin and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Italian Coast Guard is leading rescue efforts to save at least 400 migrants adrift…
Continue ReadingBenjamin Ferencz, last surviving Nuremberg prosecutor, dies age 103
By Gabby Gretener, CNN Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, has died aged 103. Ferencz fought in Europe during…
Continue ReadingMeet the cosmic rock stars headed for the moon
By Katie Hunt, CNN I was briefly transfixed by April’s full moon as it peeped out of London’s clouds on Wednesday night — it was a…
Continue ReadingZelensky shares Iftar with Muslim soldiers in ‘new tradition of respect’
By Mariya Knight and Heather Chen, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared Iftar with Ukrainian Muslim soldiers observing Ramadan on…
Continue ReadingShip carrying 20 tourists sinks in Honduras, search and rescue underway
By Gerardo Lemos, CNN Search and rescue efforts are underway in Honduras after a ship carrying about 20 tourists sank, the Honduran Fire Department…
Continue ReadingSee Uranus’ rings in stunning new image from the Webb telescope
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new stunning image of ice giant Uranus, with almost all its faint dusty rings on…
Continue ReadingFossilized eggs crack open the mysteries of the past
By Katie Hunt, CNN Eggs have been laid on land by birds, reptiles, dinosaurs and a few oddball mammals for more than 200 million years. And humans…
Continue ReadingMeet the cosmic rock stars headed for the moon
By Katie Hunt, CNN I was briefly transfixed by April’s full moon as it peeped out of London’s clouds on Wednesday night — a reminder of…
Continue Reading‘Shocked’ by the loss: Scientists sound the alarm on New Zealand’s melting glaciers
By Laura Paddison, CNN Every year scientists in New Zealand fly over some of the country’s most iconic glaciers — ancient ice…
Continue Reading‘The hatred festered in our family’: Northern Ireland marks 25 years since the Good Friday peace accord
By Caolán Magee, CNN It was a winter’s night outside Victor’s Bar in Belfast, and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) had identified its…
Continue ReadingNewly discovered ‘einstein’ shape can do something no other tile can do
By Jacopo Prisco, CNN A geometry problem that has been puzzling scientists for 60 years has likely just been solved by an amateur mathematician with…
Continue ReadingOPEC Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Facts The…
Continue ReadingApril’s full pink moon will rise this week
By Taylor Nicioli and Ashley Strickland, CNN April’s full moon will not shine pink tonight, despite its name, but the bright golden orb could…
Continue ReadingRepeating radio signal leads astronomers to an Earth-size exoplanet
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have detected a repeating radio signal from an exoplanet and the star that it orbits, both located 12…
Continue ReadingMeet the cosmic rock stars headed for the moon
By Katie Hunt, CNN I was briefly transfixed by April’s full moon as it peeped out of London’s clouds on Wednesday night — it was a…
Continue ReadingAround the world, criminal charges are no barrier to high office
By Caolán Magee, CNN Donald Trump may be the first former US president to face criminal charges, but around the world many current and former…
Continue ReadingAround the world, criminal charges are no barrier to high office
By Caolán Magee, CNN Donald Trump may be the first former US president to face criminal charges, but around the world many current and former…
Continue ReadingUS strike kills senior ISIS leader in Syria, US Central Command says
By Mary Kay Mallonee and Helen Regan, CNN A US strike in Syria has killed a senior ISIS leader who planned attacks into Europe, United States Central…
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The four astronauts NASA picked for the first crewed moon mission in 50 years
CNN) — Astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades were revealed on Monday, queuing up the quartet to begin training for…
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades were revealed on Monday, queuing…
Continue ReadingThe four astronauts NASA picked for the first crewed moon mission in 50 years
By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades were revealed on Monday, queuing…
Continue ReadingProminent Russian military blogger killed in St. Petersburg cafe blast
By Radina Gigova, Mariya Knight and Katharina Krebs, CNN A well-known Russian military blogger was killed in an explosion at a cafe in St. Petersburg…
Continue ReadingWhat do Christians celebrate on Palm Sunday?
By Ray Sanchez, CNN On Palm Sunday, Christians throughout the world celebrate the day Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem days before his…
Continue ReadingNASA set to unveil the crew of astronauts for moon flyby mission
By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN Four astronauts — including three Americans and one Canadian — will be tapped by NASA to complete a…
Continue ReadingScientists have decoded the smell of Cleopatra’s perfume
By Katie Hunt, CNN As a child in the 1980s, I visited the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, to learn about the Scandinavian seafarers. The…
Continue ReadingThe oceans just reached their hottest temperature on record as El Niño looms. Here are 6 things to watch for
By Laura Paddison and Rachel Ramirez, CNN Scientists have watched in astonishment as ocean temperatures have steadily risen over the past several…
Continue ReadingThe oceans just reached their hottest temperature on record as El Niño looms. Here are 6 things to watch for
By Laura Paddison and Rachel Ramirez, CNN Scientists have watched in astonishment as ocean temperatures have steadily risen over the past several…
Continue ReadingRussia runs the UN Security Council this month. Ukraine says it’s the worst April Fools’ joke
By Richard Roth, CNN A country led by an accused war criminal is now in charge of the United Nations Security Council. Hard as it is to believe,…
Continue ReadingWhat April Fools’ Day looks like around the world
By AJ Willingham, CNN Much divides us, but one thing that knows no cultural bounds is the human desire to pull some silly, goofy little tricks. April…
Continue ReadingScientists were able to enhance long-term memory storage in mice. Here’s how
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Researchers in New York developed a virtual reality maze for mice in an attempt to demystify a question that’s been…
Continue ReadingBill Nye explains light-years and the vastness of the universe
By Danya Gainor, CNN No matter what the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope or our other tools of space exploration discover next,…
Continue ReadingPlants aren’t silent. They make clicking sounds, a study finds
By Katie Hunt, CNN Plants make popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, according to recordings made in a new study — and they make…
Continue ReadingPlants aren’t silent. They make clicking sounds, a study finds
By Katie Hunt, CNN Plants make popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, according to recordings made in a new study — and they make…
Continue ReadingFrank Rubio’s first spaceflight will turn into the longest mission by a US astronaut
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Astronaut Frank Rubio traveled to the International Space Station on September 21, 2022, for what he thought would be a…
Continue ReadingCrucial Antarctic ocean circulation heading for collapse if planet-warming pollution remains high, scientists warn
By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Melting ice in the Antarctic is not just raising sea levels but slowing down the circulation of deep ocean water with vast…
Continue Reading‘A win of epic proportions’: World’s highest court can set out countries’ climate obligations after Vanuatu secures historic UN vote
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday won a historic vote at the United Nations that calls on the world’s…
Continue Reading‘History in the making’: UN poised to take unprecedented vote on the climate crisis
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday is poised to win a historic vote at the United Nations that would call on the…
Continue ReadingHubble telescope captures images of Jupiter and Uranus looking different
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The weather is slowly changing on Jupiter and Uranus, according to our galaxy’s own interplanetary meteorologist. The…
Continue ReadingA stunning lineup of five planets will decorate the night sky
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Night sky lovers can typically spot a smattering of a few planets, but in late March, a stunning visual takes shape when five…
Continue ReadingMeatballs made with mammoth DNA created by Australian food startup
By Katie Hunt, CNN Woolly mammoth remains, with fur and tissue still in tact, are regularly found entombed in Arctic permafrost. Their discovery has…
Continue ReadingMeatballs made with mammoth DNA created by Australian food startup
By Katie Hunt, CNN Woolly mammoth remains, with fur and tissue still in tact, are regularly found entombed in Arctic permafrost. Their discovery has…
Continue ReadingWater is trapped in glass beads on the moon’s surface, lunar samples show
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Trillions of pounds of water may be strewn across the moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that could have formed when asteroids…
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