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By Helen Regan, Amy Woodyatt and Adam Renton, CNN The-CNN-Wire™ & © 2021 Cable News Network, Inc., a WarnerMedia Company. All rights…

By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN Comet Leonard, which last passed by Earth 80,000 years ago, has been dazzling the night sky before…

By Rob Picheta, CNN For the second year in a row, a worrying new coronavirus variant has scuppered holiday plans around the world. This year,…

By Katie Hunt, CNN The human story — where we come from and how we evolved — got a new chapter in 2021. Thanks to new fossil finds and…

By Ashley Vaughan, Jennifer Grubb, Ben Burnstein, CNN The Philippines are struggling to recover after Super Typhoon Rai devastated the islands last…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN This year, we got to know our universe a little bit better. Discoveries in our solar system helped us become better…

By Ivana Kottasová and Virginia Langmaid, CNN It might be time to rethink your festive plans, the World Health Organization has warned amid a rising…

By Megan Marples, CNN A crisp wind blew off the Gulf of Mexico as photojournalist and commercial photographer Mark Wallheiser set up his camera on a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Just over a year after Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission returned the first subsurface sample of an asteroid to Earth,…

By Jeevan Ravindran, CNN If you’ve never heard of the Siau scops-owl, there’s a good reason why — and it’s not because your…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The sun is the literal star of the show in our solar system, but we’re still trying to figure out our celestial disco…

By Sheena McKenzie and Yong Xiong, CNN As the rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant looms across parts of the globe and the Delta variant…

By Angela Eichhorst, CNN Bundle up to enjoy the last full moon of the year. The last full moon of 2021 will reach peak illumination on Saturday,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The largest planet in our solar system appears to look more and more like a work of art. It’s full of surprises…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The isolated Faroe Islands were once home to an unknown population in 500 AD, about 350 years before Vikings ever arrived,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Mars has its own version of the Grand Canyon, and scientists have learned this dramatic feature is home to…

By Rob Picheta, CNN The rapid spread of the Omicron coronavirus variant has broken pandemic records and shuttered borders in several parts of the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Lava once flowed at the site of an ancient lake on Mars. The Perseverance rover landed on the planet just 10 months ago,…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of Christine Lagarde, president of the European Central Bank. Personal Birth date: January 1,…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of seven-time Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher. Personal Birth date: January 3,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The highly anticipated launch of the James Webb Space Telescope is facing yet another delay before it can lift off the…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day, which mark the end of the year and the beginning of the…

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The Omicron coronavirus variant is spreading at a rate not seen with previous variants, World Health Organization…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN As the rapidly heating planet alters the landscape of the Arctic region up north, scientists have discovered disturbing and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Sixty years after NASA set the goal, and three years after its Parker Solar Probe launched, the spacecraft has become the…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN From extreme melt events to an influx of beaver colonies in Alaska, and rain falling at the summit of Greenland for the first…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is a slumbering giant at the heart of our galaxy and occasionally, it wakes up and has an outburst. Astronomers have…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is a new comet in town, and December is your only chance to see it before disappears forever. Astronomers say that…

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur behind Tesla and SpaceX. Personal Birth date: June 28,…

By Sherry Liang, CNN The calendar of annual meteor showers saves one of its best for last. The Geminids will light up the night sky Monday night into…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Astronauts need to be in unparalleled physical and mental shape to handle the rigors of space — writer Tom Wolfe famously…

By Megan Marples, CNN This dinosaur could sprint at speeds as swift as the world’s fastest human. Theropods were carnivorous dinosaurs that ran…

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Archaeologists have unearthed what they believe is the first example of a crucifixion in northern Europe. The skeleton of a man…

By Megan Marples, CNN The bones of an extinct reptile tell a story of how this ancient creature took an 8-foot leap of faith in the air to take…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A planet has been found orbiting in a double-star system that is so hot and massive that some astronomers didn’t…

By Pierre Bairin, Anaelle Jonah, Hamdi Alkhshali and Mostafa Salem, CNN French authorities have released a Saudi man detained on Tuesday, after…

CNN Editorial Research Here is some background information about the Jewish holiday Hanukkah. In 2023, Hanukkah will start on December 7 at sunset…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN We’re about to get a new perspective on some of the most extreme objects in the universe. In the early morning hours…

By Joseph Ataman, Pierre Bairin and Gul Tuysuz, CNN A Saudi man detained in Paris has “nothing to do” with the murder of journalist Jamal…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Every time new climate research is published, news headlines are posted or tweets are shared, a giant steel box perched on a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN There is a new comet in town, and December is your only chance to see it before disappears forever. Astronomers say that…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Ten men and women are ready to begin training so they can journey to the International Space Station, the moon and beyond.…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Whenever we’re confronted with aspects of science fiction becoming scientific reality, philosophical questions arise.…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a selected list of commercial airplane crashes caused by military acts or by terrorism. June 14, 1940 –…