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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look to the sky this weekend for a chance to see February’s wintry full moon, which comes as four…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look to the sky this weekend for a chance to see February’s wintry full moon, which comes as four…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin announced Friday that it is pausing flights aboard its suborbital space tourism rocket New Shepard.…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have discovered the largest organic molecule containing sulfur — a key ingredient for life — ever…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — As the sea ice melts due to climate change, the trend of polar bears getting thinner and having fewer cubs has…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have discovered a 1,400-year-old Zapotec tomb in southern Mexico, adorned with complex carvings, which…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientist Veerabhadran Ramanathan yearned for the American dream while growing up in southern India in the 1960s:…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off 40 years ago with an unusual crew. In addition to six…
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CNN By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how…
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CNN By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how…
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — At the dawn of the nuclear age, scientists created the Doomsday Clock as a symbolic representation of how close…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — When four astronauts begin a historic trip around the moon as soon as February 6, they’ll climb aboard…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The frigid temperatures, massive snow and deadly ice storm taking shape east of the Rockies might seem to…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Space junk falling out of orbit and crashing toward Earth is a growing threat. Indeed, old satellites and…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As an electricity crunch drives bills higher around the country, big tech companies building power-hungry data…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The outline of a hand made with red pigment on the wall of a cave in Indonesia at least 67,800 years ago may be the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Longtime NASA astronaut Suni Williams announced her retirement Tuesday — officially making the unexpectedly…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world has entered “an era of global water bankruptcy” with irreversible consequences, according to a new…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have long searched for clues that a hidden companion star sits out of view near the red…
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CNN, ANTONIO J. OSUNA-MASCARÓ, CURRENT BIOLOGY By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Powerful solar activity released by the sun reached Earth Monday, causing colorful auroral displays and GPS…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — How does a cow scratch an itch on its back? An Austrian cow named Veronika has a solution that could change how…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Artist, inventor and anatomist Leonardo da Vinci was the definition of a Renaissance man — and scientists…
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By Jasmin Sykes, CNN (CNN) — Images of plants painted on pottery made up to 8,000 years ago may be the earliest example of humans’…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex lived longer and took more time to reach its maximum size than previously thought, according to a…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — On the vast expanse of the Siberian steppe 14,000 years ago, a 2-month-old wolf pup gobbled down some woolly…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down early Thursday in the Pacific Ocean,…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Four astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down early Thursday in the Pacific Ocean, ending a…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Four astronauts are now en route home from the International Space Station, marking the first time NASA has…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Horses can detect fear in humans by smell, becoming more likely to startle and more wary of people who are scared, a…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Congress is poised to reject President Donald Trump’s “astounding” proposed cuts to the National Oceanic…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Four astronauts are now en route home from the International Space Station, marking the first time NASA has…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Particles from Earth’s atmosphere have been carried into space by solar wind and have been landing on the moon…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Dark-eyed junco songbirds have been serenading the University of California, Los Angeles campus for decades as…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Four astronauts will return from the International Space Station more than a month ahead of schedule after an…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — There were 23 separate billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the United States last year, adding up…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Toddlers can pick up new words just by overhearing conversations. Now, new research suggests that some…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers may have discovered a previously unknown type of astronomical object, nicknamed “Cloud-9,”…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump wants the US to sell Venezuela’s oil. But who would buy it? China has long been one of…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA said on Wednesday it was postponing a spacewalk at the International Space Station that was scheduled for…
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By Andrew Freedman, Ella Nilsen, Samantha Waldenberg, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is pulling the United States out of the bedrock…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have detected traces of plant toxins on Stone Age arrowheads that were used by hunter-gatherers in…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Fossils unearthed in Morocco from a little-understood period of human evolution may help scientists resolve a…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN London (CNN) — An almost complete battle trumpet dating back around 2,000 years to the Iron Age has been unearthed by in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Burned bone fragments found in northern Malawi have revealed the oldest cremation pyre ever found in Africa…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — The wolf moon, the first full moon of the year, will ring in 2026, gracing the sky this weekend, but the lunar…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration ordered an aging coal-fired power plant in Colorado to stay open on Tuesday, a day before…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Bright full moons, dazzling meteor shower displays and remarkable total eclipses will give stargazers plenty…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally…
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By Maggie Koerth, CNN (CNN) — This year is not a particularly white Christmas. Across the United States, families are gathering to enjoy a walk…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers across the globe put on their sleuthing hats this year to provide answers to questions that have…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — In the latest blow to the US offshore wind industry, the Trump administration announced Monday it is suspending the…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Residents of mid-Atlantic states like Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania who have spent years plagued by high…
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By Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN (CNN) — Iraq, the historic “land between two rivers,” faces a crisis striking at its identity as the Tigris and…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Michaela Benthaus, a 33-year-old German aerospace and mechatronics engineer at the European Space Agency, just…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Ursid meteor shower, which marks the final celestial event of the year, will peak between Sunday night…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Along with its many other innovations, the Roman Empire revolutionized architecture with never-before-seen…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Only a scattering of light penetrates the deep water, more than 300 feet beneath the ocean surface off the coast…
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By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — An ancient woman thought to have hailed from sub-Saharan Africa and therefore to have been the first known…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An interstellar comet first spotted passing through our solar system in July is beginning its departure from…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A Blue Origin rocket will soon launch carrying an unconventional passenger in a history-making moment made…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Contrary to popular depictions of bee nests as large, intricate hives that hang from trees, the majority of bee…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A monthslong saga featuring tech billionaire Jared Isaacman — President Donald Trump’s on-again, off-again…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN NEW ORLEANS (CNN) — Stress balls were the swag item of choice at the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s booth…
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By Chris Mooney, Yumi Asada (CNN) — Bathtubs and pools mislead us about the ocean: Its surface is anything but flat. Seas pile up in some…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds gathered to say goodbye when 700-year-old Pizol died. The funeral in Switzerland in 2019 was solemn.…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A pod of Pacific white-sided dolphins off the coast of British Columbia have been observed cooperating with orcas, a…
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By Chris Mooney Planet-warming pollution rates exploded after the end of World War II. James Watt’s steam engine launched the Industrial Revolution…
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By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Avid sky-gazers spend all year anticipating the peak of the annual Geminid meteor shower. Now, it’s finally here.…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Nothing on the surface of this scrubby expanse of western Nevada desert, overlooked by towering, craggy…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When an ancient ship was unearthed in Scandinavia over 100 years ago, archaeologists started to uncover bits and…
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By Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency has altered and removed information from its website that…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A field in eastern England has revealed evidence of the earliest known instance of humans creating and controlling…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Swirling underwater “storms” are aggressively melting the ice shelves of two vital Antarctic glaciers, with…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Humans are far more monogamous than our primate cousins, but less so than beavers, a new study suggests. Researchers…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Voyager 1, NASA’s deep-space probe, could soon become the first spacecraft to reach a historic milestone.…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Hubble Space Telescope and the Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer have captured fresh images of an interstellar…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in…
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By Maggie Koerth, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes, what goes up doesn’t come back down — instead, it becomes a problem. Junk is accumulating in space…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Standing in Arizona’s largest dry lakebed, Wilcox Playa, astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy steadied himself as…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A high-traffic “dinosaur freeway” may have once stretched across a shoreline in what is now Bolivia.…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The Black Death — one of the deadliest pandemics in human history, estimated to have killed up to half of…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Stephanie Tate couldn’t figure it out. After three years of living in her new Illinois home, her winter energy…
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By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Keep your eyes high in the sky this week to see the last supermoon of the year. December’s full supermoon, also…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A rare spectacle played out on Capitol Hill as Jared Isaacman — the billionaire tech entrepreneur and Elon…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The 2025 Atlantic hurricane season, which officially ended November 30, showcased the growing capabilities of…
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By Simone McCarthy, Mike Valerio, Fred He, John Liu, CNN Beijing (CNN) — A private Chinese space firm successfully sent its Zhuque-3 rocket to…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Zillow, the nation’s largest real estate listing website, has removed extreme weather risk data meant to help…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Rows of worshippers, some with their faces raised toward the sky, others with their heads bowed, prayed for rain…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The origins of domestic cats — centuries before they conquered the world’s sofas and internet memes — have…
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By Brad Lendon, Nina Subkhanberdina, CNN (CNN) — A launch pad at Russia’s main space complex was damaged during Thursday’s launch of a…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up —…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists say a 3D model of a centuries-old quarry of unfinished stone head statues on Easter Island offers new…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A female wild wolf living on the central coast of British Columbia was filmed pulling a crab trap out of the…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — New Zealand has announced plans to eradicate feral cats by 2050, as part of efforts to protect the country’s…
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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — The clever, adaptable urban raccoon may be evolving a shorter snout — a key physical trait of pets and other…
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By Laura Paddison, Andrew Freedman, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The world struck a new climate deal at the COP30 summit in Brazil Saturday, which…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A series of about 5,200 holes stretching nearly a mile (1.5 kilometers) across the Pisco Valley in the…
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By Ella Nilsen, Steve Contorno, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is proposing to open federal waters off the entire coastline of California…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The universe’s expansion might not be accelerating but slowing down, a new study suggests. If confirmed, the…
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