Jupiter now has 92 moons after new discovery
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Jupiter already reigns as king of the planets — it’s the largest one in our solar system. And now, the gas giant…
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New asteroid photobombs Webb telescope
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has observed its smallest cosmic object to date — a previously unknown asteroid about the…
Continue ReadingSpaceX put a Tesla sportscar into space five years ago. Where is it now?
By Jackie Wattles, CNN It’s now been half a decade since SpaceX turned heads around the world with its decision to launch Elon Musk’s…
Continue ReadingAtmospheric rivers aren’t just a problem for California. They’re changing the Arctic, too
By Rachel Ramirez and Laura Paddison, CNN The Arctic is seeing a rapid decline in sea ice even during the cold winter months when it should be…
Continue ReadingHow to see February’s full snow moon
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Look in the night sky this weekend for February’s full moon, where it can be glimpsed around the world. It will reach…
Continue ReadingChile wildfires leave at least 22 people dead, officials say
By Jonny Hallam and Emma Tucker, CNN At least 22 people have died in connection with widespread forest fires in south-central Chile, according to…
Continue ReadingCosmic seaplanes and self-growing bricks could help us explore other worlds
By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the golden age of space exploration we live in, cosmic revelations seem to occur more frequently than ever before. This…
Continue ReadingSci-fi ideas that could change the future of space exploration
By Ashley Strickland, CNN In the past year, a tiny helicopter flew on Mars, a NASA spacecraft slammed into an asteroid and the James Webb Space…
Continue ReadingExtreme cold snaps: Why temperatures still plummet to dangerous levels even as the planet warms
By Laura Paddison, Krystina Shveda and Jhasua Razo, CNN Even as the world smashes through one all-time heat record after another and speeds towards…
Continue ReadingExtreme cold snaps: Why temperatures still plummet to dangerous levels even as the planet warms
By Laura Paddison, Krystina Shveda and Jhasua Razo, CNN Even as the world smashes through one all-time heat record after another and speeds towards…
Continue ReadingA 319-million-year-old brain has been discovered. It could be the oldest of its kind
By Amarachi Orie, CNN A scan of the skull of a 319-million-year-old fossilized fish has led to the discovery of the oldest example of a…
Continue ReadingNeanderthals hunted massive elephants that once roamed northern Europe
By Katie Hunt, CNN Some 125,000 years ago, enormous elephants that weighed as much as eight cars each roamed in what’s now northern Europe.…
Continue ReadingVikings brought their animals with them to Britain over 1,000 years ago
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Vikings crossed the North Sea to reach Britain in the ninth century AD, they brought their dogs and horses with…
Continue ReadingSupernova reveals rare pair of stars believed to be one of only about 10 like it in the Milky Way
By Ashley Strickland, CNN An unusual star system created more of a fizz and less of a bang when it exploded in a supernova. The lackluster explosion,…
Continue ReadingGreen comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the…
Continue ReadingGreen comet will appear in the night sky for the first time since the Stone Age
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A recently discovered green comet will soon zip by Earth for the first time in 50,000 years. It was last visible in the…
Continue ReadingScientists plot the resurrection of a bird that’s been extinct since the 17th century
By Katie Hunt, CNN No other animal is as inexorably linked with extinction as the dodo, an odd-looking flightless bird that lived on the island of…
Continue ReadingA dire forecast: Scientists used AI to find planet could cross critical warming threshold sooner than expected
By Christian Edwards, CNN The planet could cross critical global warming thresholds sooner than previous models have predicted, even with concerted…
Continue ReadingMeet the man who has transformed our understanding of evolution
By Katie Hunt, CNN On the Galapagos Islands, a ground finch that usually munched on small, soft seeds was forced, during a drought, to eat harder,…
Continue ReadingNASA orbiter captures image of a bear’s face on Mars
By Ashley Strickland, CNN As a NASA orbiter turned its camera to the Martian surface, the face of a bear seemed to be looking back. A camera aboard…
Continue ReadingCNN Exclusive: Inside the secretive process to select the first astronauts for NASA’s next moon mission
By Kristin Fisher, CNN Sometime this spring, NASA will make one of the biggest announcements in its history when it names the initial four-person…
Continue ReadingFacing the extremes as an Arctic photographer
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Arctic was once a surprisingly warm place — and a haven for unusual creatures. About 56 million years ago, Earth…
Continue ReadingFive Russian men fleeing military conscription have been living at a South Korean airport for months
By Yoonjung Seo and Heather Chen, CNN Five Russian men who fled the country after Moscow’s military mobilization order last September have been…
Continue ReadingStowaway gecko survives 3,000-mile voyage from Egypt to Manchester in a box of strawberries
By Zoe Sottile, CNN A globe-trotting gecko has accidentally made the trip from Egypt to England after hitching a ride in a container of strawberries.…
Continue ReadingFive Russian men fleeing military conscription have been living at a South Korean airport for months
By Yoonjung Seo and Heather Chen, CNN Five Russian men who fled the country after Moscow’s military mobilization order last September have been…
Continue ReadingWest to deliver 321 tanks to Ukraine, says diplomat, as North Korea accuses US of ‘crossing the red line’
By Pierre Meilhan and Heather Chen, CNN Western countries will deliver more than 300 tanks to Ukraine, Kyiv’s ambassador to France said Friday.…
Continue ReadingWest to deliver 321 tanks to Ukraine, says diplomat, as North Korea accuses US of ‘crossing the red line’
By Pierre Meilhan and Heather Chen, CNN Western countries will deliver more than 300 tanks to Ukraine, Kyiv’s ambassador to France said Friday.…
Continue Reading‘A war of attrition’: Humans and extreme drought damaging Amazon rainforest much more than thought, study suggests
By Laura Paddison, CNN Human activity and extreme drought is causing far more damage to the Amazon rainforest than previously thought, exacerbating…
Continue Reading‘A ginormous can of worms’: How a fight over snow crabs could lead to a win for oil drilling access
By Laura Paddison, CNN A legal fight in Norway over snow crabs could end up having big implications for access to oil in the Arctic. This week…
Continue ReadingNewly discovered asteroid makes one of the closest approaches of Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth…
Continue ReadingNewly discovered asteroid makes one of the closest approaches of Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN An asteroid the size of a box truck made one of the closest passes of planet Earth ever recorded. The small near-Earth…
Continue ReadingHumans can understand apes’ sign language, new study finds
By Issy Ronald and Amarachi Orie, CNN From pointing to animated arm movements and nodding, people regularly employ gestures to accompany and create…
Continue ReadingEarth’s inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth…
Continue ReadingIceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica
By Jennifer Hauser and Angela Fritz, CNN An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according…
Continue ReadingFossils reveal the mysterious primate relatives that lived in the ancient Arctic
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Analysis of fossils found in the far north of Canada has revealed that two previously unknown species of ancient…
Continue ReadingRocket Lab launches Electron rocket from the US for the first time
By Jackie Wattles, CNN Rocket Lab, a prolific launch company that routinely blasts its towering Electron rockets out of New Zealand, conducted its…
Continue ReadingIceberg roughly the size of London breaks off in Antarctica
By Jennifer Hauser and Angela Fritz, CNN An iceberg nearly the size of Greater London broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf in Antarctica on Sunday according…
Continue ReadingWhat scientists say about the real-life zombie fungi that inspired ‘The Last of Us’
By Kate Golembiewski, CNN The zombies are identifiable by the fungi bursting from their bodies: a thicket of spiky tendrils, a miniature garden of…
Continue ReadingEarth’s inner core may have stopped turning and could go into reverse, study suggests
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN The rotation of Earth‘s inner core may have paused and it could even go into reverse, new research suggests. The Earth…
Continue ReadingNASA to test nuclear thermal rocket engine for the first time in 50 years
By Jackie Wattles, CNN A nuclear thermal rocket engine in development could one day transport humans to Mars. The Defense Advanced Research Projects…
Continue ReadingThe Doomsday Clock reveals how close we are to total annihilation
By Megan Marples, Kristen Rogers and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The Doomsday Clock has been ticking for 76 years. But it’s no ordinary clock. It…
Continue ReadingBill Gates backs start-up tackling cow burps and farts
By Laura Paddison, CNN It turns out burps can be big business. Billionaire Bill Gates has announced an investment in Australian start-up Rumin8,…
Continue ReadingRare 17-pound meteorite discovered in Antarctica
By Jackie Wattles, CNN During a recent excursion to the icy plains of Antarctica, an international team of researchers discovered five new meteorites…
Continue ReadingWebb telescope peers into the frozen heart of a space cloud
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope peered inside a wispy molecular cloud located 630 light-years away and spied ices made of…
Continue ReadingTrilobites armed with tridents could be the earliest known example of sexual combat
By Kate Golembiewski, CNN From a deer’s elaborate branching antlers to the fiddler crab’s oversize claw, the animal kingdom is full of…
Continue ReadingWe are all made of stars: The long trip from the big bang to the human body
By Bryn Nelson, CNN In its violent early years, Earth was a molten hellscape that ejected the moon after a fiery collision with another protoplanet,…
Continue ReadingDiscovery in India reveals intimate details about lives of some of the largest dinosaurs
By Katie Hunt, CNN To pry open the mysteries of our planet’s past, scientists typically study rocks and fossilized bones. Eggs are an often…
Continue ReadingSouth Korea’s lunar probe captures stunning Earth, moon images
By Ashley Strickland, CNN South Korea’s first lunar probe has returned some striking images of Earth and the moon. The Korean Pathfinder Lunar…
Continue ReadingOrigins of plague could have emerged centuries before outbreaks, new study suggests
By Amarachi Orie, CNN In the largest DNA analysis of its kind, scientists have found evidence to suggest that historic plague pandemics, such as the…
Continue ReadingNew Zealand Education Minister Chris Hipkins bids to replace Jacinda Ardern as PM
By Mitchell McCluskey, Caitlin Hu and Kathleen Magramo, CNN Chris Hipkins, New Zealand’s education minister, is bidding to replace Jacinda…
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