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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Solar Orbiter mission will make its closest flyby of the sun Saturday since launching in February 2020. The spacecraft…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Tonight, for the 15th consecutive year, people around the world will turn off their lights for one hour. It’s part of a…

By Rachel Ramirez and Hafsa Khalil, CNN An ice shelf in Antarctica nearly the size of Los Angeles disintegrated in mid-March within days of…

By Zeena Saifi, Eoin McSweeney, Bear Hutchison and Becky Anderson, CNN The European Space Agency may seek closer ties with NASA on its upcoming…

By Arnaud Siad, Nathan Hodge and Toyin Owoseje, CNN J.K. Rowling has hit back at Vladimir Putin after the Russian President compared the West’s…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Nearly 50 years after it was collected, a lunar sample from the Apollo 17 mission has finally been opened at NASA’s…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN As Russia’s invasion of Ukraine enters a new month, the wealthy elite close to Russian President Vladimir Putin are…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Easter and Holy Week. On Easter Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ on the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN For years, researchers have sought to understand why Vikings abandoned one of their settlements in Greenland after…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at April Fools’ Day, also known as All Fools’ Day, celebrated on April 1 every year. History Some…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Since Russia closed its airspace to airlines from dozens of countries at the end of February — in response to sanctions…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is a new kind of mystery object in space, and after capturing their best image yet, astronomers are one step closer…

By Megan Marples, CNN Dug may not be the world’s largest potato, but it’s still pretty spudtacular. When New Zealand couple Colin and…

By Rob Picheta and Isabelle Jani Friend, CNN Several European nations are facing a new spike in Covid-19 cases because they scrapped pandemic…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer’s first spacewalk was an eventful one, beginning and ending with…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Space can be a violent place. Objects crash into each other, causing destruction or leading to the formation of larger…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN An artificial lake off the west coast of Sicily was once one of the largest sacred pools in the ancient Mediterranean 2,500…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Air pollution spiked to unhealthy levels around the world in 2021, according to a new report. The report by IQAir, a company…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN There are now more than 5,000 confirmed planets beyond our solar system, according to NASA. The latest addition of 65…

By Scottie Andrew, CNN A young Ukrainian girl who recently performed a moving rendition of the “Frozen” hit “Let It Go” for…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Jewish holiday of Passover. The holiday will be celebrated from sundown on April 5 through April…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at crude oil reserves and production around the world. Facts Crude oil is a form of liquid petroleum,…

By Megan Marples, CNN The late-afternoon sun shone down on a sandstone ridge in Montana, illuminating a large sinkhole that had been soaked from rain…

By Katie Hunt, CNN A mega moon rocket and the Orion spacecraft have finally emerged from their chrysalis and are towering in place at NASA’s…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement reached in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, mandating that industrialized…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN As Russia’s brutal war in Ukraine disrupts energy supply and forces world leaders to examine their dependence on Russian…

By Travis Caldwell, CNN Former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger made an impassioned appeal to the Russian people in a video posted on social…

By Gabriel Kinder, CNN Survivors of Russia’s siege on the Ukrainian city of Mariupol are reporting that some residents are being forced to…

By Harmeet Kaur, CNN With winter finally coming to an end, millions of people in India — and other parts of the world home to Hindus —…