This dead star offers a glimpse of our solar system’s eventual fate
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Space truly is the final frontier. Fifty-five years after the world met Capt. James T. Kirk and his crew on the USS…
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This dead star offers a glimpse of our solar system’s eventual fate
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Space truly is the final frontier. Fifty-five years after the world met Capt. James T. Kirk and his crew on the USS…
Continue ReadingNASA’s Lucy mission has launched to explore never-before-seen asteroids
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first NASA mission that will fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids has launched on its ambitious journey. Weather…
Continue ReadingRussian crew wraps trailblazing movie in space, safely returns to Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN After filming the first movie in space, Russian actress Yulia Peresild, producer-director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg…
Continue ReadingRussian crew wraps trailblazing movie in space, safely returns to Earth
By Ashley Strickland, CNN After filming the first movie in space, Russian actress Yulia Peresild, producer-director Klim Shipenko and cosmonaut Oleg…
Continue ReadingNASA’s Lucy mission is ready to launch and explore never-before-seen asteroids
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first NASA mission to fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids is ready for launch. Weather conditions will be 90%…
Continue ReadingNASA’s Lucy mission is ready to launch and explore never-before-seen asteroids
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first NASA mission to fly by a total of eight ancient asteroids is ready for launch. Weather conditions will be 90%…
Continue ReadingWhat does ‘net zero’ mean? Our climate change glossary will help you sound smart
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN The whole world seems to be talking about the climate crisis, thanks to months of wild weather and new science showing that…
Continue ReadingOver a thousand cosmic explosions traced to mysterious repeating fast radio burst
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Talk about a cosmic temper tantrum. An outburst of explosions has been traced back to a mysterious repeating fast radio…
Continue ReadingGiant planet found orbiting a dead star shows what may happen when our sun dies
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The discovery of a distant Jupiter-like planet orbiting a dead star reveals what may happen in our solar system when the…
Continue ReadingNew findings a ‘complete reversal’ in understanding why Earth became hospitable to life and its ‘twin’ didn’t
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Venus may be a sweltering wasteland today, but scientists have questioned whether the planet was always so inhospitable.…
Continue ReadingIt’s time to talk about money with your tweens and teens. Here’s how
By Christine Koh, CNN Children are watching — and it’s not just behaviors like kindness and empathy that can make an impression. They…
Continue ReadingIt’s time to talk about money with your tweens and teens. Here’s how
By Christine Koh, CNN Children are watching — and it’s not just behaviors like kindness and empathy that can make an impression. They…
Continue ReadingPutin says Russia needs to speed up vaccination for Covid-19
By Zahra Ullah and Katharina Krebs, CNN Russia must accelerate Covid-19 vaccinations, Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated on Tuesday as the…
Continue ReadingNorthern Lights shimmer farther south than usual tonight as geomagnetic storm hits Earth
By Katie Hunt, CNN A geomagnetic storm triggered by a flare of solar energy hit Earth on Monday, making the Northern Lights, or aurora borealis,…
Continue ReadingStrange radio waves coming from the heart of the Milky Way stump scientists
By Katie Hunt, CNN Space experts have detected unusual radio waves coming from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The energy signal is unlike any…
Continue ReadingCOP26 chief Alok Sharma calls on the G20’s climate laggards to ‘step up’
By Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor, CNN COP26 President Alok Sharma called out the G20 nations that have not increased their pledges on…
Continue ReadingOur underwater future: What sea level rise will look like around the globe
By John Keefe and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The planet is warming rapidly, resulting in historic drought, deadly floods and unusual melting events in the…
Continue ReadingStrange radio waves coming from the heart of the Milky Way stump scientists
By Katie Hunt, CNN Space experts have detected unusual radio waves coming from the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The energy signal is unlike any…
Continue ReadingCOP26 chief Alok Sharma calls on the G20’s climate laggards to ‘step up’
By Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor, CNN COP26 President Alok Sharma called out the G20 nations that have not increased their pledges on…
Continue ReadingScientists looked at more than 100,000 studies and found the world has a giant climate-crisis blind spot
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Scientists using artificial intelligence to sift through around 100,000 climate studies were trying to put a number on how…
Continue ReadingFrom ‘net zero’ to ‘mitigation,’ here’s how to sound smart on climate
By Laura Smith-Spark, CNN The whole world seems to be talking about the climate crisis, thanks to months of wild weather and new science showing that…
Continue ReadingMore than 30 countries have joined pledge to slash climate-warming methane emissions by 30%
By Ella Nilsen and Angela Dewan, CNN Canada, Nigeria, Japan and Pakistan are among 31 parties to join a global pledge, led by the US and EU, to slash…
Continue ReadingEngland to remove another ‘discriminatory’ barrier to blood donation
By Sarah Dean England is set to remove an “outdated, unnecessary and actively discriminatory” question from blood donor forms, which…
Continue ReadingNuclear Nations Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at nuclear nations. Information about nuclear stockpiles varies from source to source. The information…
Continue Reading‘I’m just trying to survive’
By Faith Karimi, CNN His messages are a mix of uncertainty and terror — with glimmers of hope. He is gay, a convert to Christianity and a…
Continue ReadingDubai Expo presents a facade of 192 nations at peace. The reality is never far from the surface
By Scott McLean, Gio Prati and Charbel Mallo, CNN Spend a few hours wandering the manicured walkways of the Expo 2020 grounds and the world —…
Continue ReadingDubai Expo presents a facade of 192 nations at peace. The reality is never far from the surface
By Scott McLean, Gio Prati and Charbel Mallo, CNN Spend a few hours wandering the manicured walkways of the Expo 2020 grounds and the world —…
Continue ReadingAfghan evacuee flights to the US from Ramstein Air Base in Germany resume
By Oren Liebermann, CNN Flights of Afghan evacuees from Ramstein Air Base in Germany to the US resumed Saturday after pausing for weeks due to…
Continue Reading‘Once-in-a-generation’ find reveals microscopic fossil in amber
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Let’s hear it for the trailblazers. This week, the winners of the Nobel Prize in physics, medicine, chemistry and…
Continue ReadingHearing you’ve won a Nobel is incredible for most people. For some, it just spoils their sleep
By Rob Picheta, CNN At five o’clock in the morning, the esteemed 86-year-old astrophysicist Jim Peebles was woken suddenly by the telephone…
Continue ReadingUN says access to a ‘clean, healthy’ environment is a human right
By Angela Dewan, Niamh Kennedy and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHCR) acknowledged Friday that access to a…
Continue ReadingA group of little-known killer whales have been identified as big hunters of the sea
By Noah Sheidlower and Justin Lear, CNN Swimming deep in the Pacific Ocean, a group of little-known killer whales that eat large sea mammals…
Continue ReadingMust-watch videos of the week
By Rachael Scott, CNN Capt. Kirk cracks Anderson Cooper up with his real-life trip to the final frontier, a “Hamilton” star sends a…
Continue ReadingMust-watch videos of the week
By Rachael Scott, CNN Capt. Kirk cracks Anderson Cooper up with his real-life trip to the final frontier, a “Hamilton” star sends a…
Continue ReadingThe Draconid meteor shower peaks October 8. Here’s how to watch
By Sherry Liang, CNN The Draconid meteor shower is expected to peak on Friday, October 8, and last through October 10, bringing with it a drizzle of…
Continue ReadingMust-watch videos of the week
By Rachael Scott, CNN Capt. Kirk cracks Anderson Cooper up with his real-life trip to the final frontier, a “Hamilton” star sends a…
Continue ReadingMust-watch videos of the week
By Rachael Scott, CNN Capt. Kirk cracks Anderson Cooper up with his real-life trip to the final frontier, a “Hamilton” star sends a…
Continue ReadingThe Draconid meteor shower peaks October 8. Here’s how to watch
By Sherry Liang, CNN The Draconid meteor shower is expected to peak on Friday, October 8, and last through October 10, bringing with it a drizzle of…
Continue ReadingNew lunar samples reveal more recent volcanic activity on the moon
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When its Chang’e-5 mission landed on the moon in December 2020, China became only the third country to collect lunar…
Continue ReadingNew Perseverance rover images reveal what happened before ancient Martian lake disappeared
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Images captured by the Perseverance rover have allowed scientists to peer back in time at what Mars was like billions of…
Continue ReadingNew Perseverance rover images reveal what happened before ancient Martian lake disappeared
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Images captured by the Perseverance rover have allowed scientists to peer back in time at what Mars was like billions of…
Continue ReadingTurkey finally ratifies Paris climate agreement but protests key detail
By Isil Sariyuce and Caitlin Hu, CNN Turkey became the last G20 nation to ratify the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, almost six years after…
Continue ReadingTurkey finally ratifies Paris climate agreement but protests key detail
By Isil Sariyuce and Caitlin Hu, CNN Turkey became the last G20 nation to ratify the Paris climate agreement on Wednesday, almost six years after…
Continue ReadingNew UAE space mission will orbit Venus and land on an asteroid
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The United Arab Emirates is setting a course for Venus and the main asteroid belt. The new interplanetary mission,…
Continue ReadingThe day Facebook went dark
By Faith Karimi, CNN A businessman in Atlanta changed his passwords because he thought his phone had been hacked. A Long Island woman who sells…
Continue ReadingWhy it took nearly 50 years for scientists to name this mysterious tropical plant
By Megan Marples, CNN After nearly half a century, the mystery of Manu is finally solved. In 1973, scientist Robin Foster discovered a plant with…
Continue ReadingThe unused “miracle”
By Tara John and Isabelle Jani Friend, CNN Before the advent of Covid-19 vaccines, the San Francisco Department of Public Health needed three…
Continue ReadingThe unused “miracle”
By Tara John and Isabelle Jani Friend, CNN Before the advent of Covid-19 vaccines, the San Francisco Department of Public Health needed three…
Continue ReadingNobel Prize in chemistry awarded for ‘simple’ yet ‘ingenious’ discovery
By Rob Picheta and Katie Hunt, CNN The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Benjamin List and David W.C. MacMillan, two scientists honored…
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