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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Sharks have a reputation for being silent killers — the top ocean predators are stealthy hunters, but they…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain…

By Ramishah Maruf, Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — An unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that claims the US government is controlling…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA has outlined how it will respond to President Donald Trump’s order that federal agencies eliminate…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The number of people stung by red fire ants in Australia has increased significantly in past weeks, with 23 people…

By Lauren Kent, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Deanne Criswell has spent years sounding the alarm about busier disaster seasons. Just days before the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — One of the most closely watched astronaut missions of recent memory came to a dramatic close this week as…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Around 34 million years ago, the ancestors of modern iguanas likely embarked on what may be the longest…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for millions of dollars in damages to a giant pipeline…

By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — A report considered the world’s most trusted source of climate updates has laid out the parlous state of a…

CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It has been a dramatic change of fortunes for the blobfish. Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A high stakes $300 million lawsuit brought by a giant pipeline company against the environmental group…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company that conducted a pristine moon landing with its Blue Ghost spacecraft…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — While parts of the Earth experienced a total lunar eclipse early Friday, a spacecraft on the moon captured the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of astronauts who will take over duties on the International Space Station from NASA’s Suni Williams…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s first month in office has worried federal and state officials alike tasked with…

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life…

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten,…

CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped with harpoon-like teeth are among…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of international astronauts slated to launch to the International Space Station on a mission that…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of international astronauts slated to launch to the International Space Station on a mission that will…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration announced its intent to roll back major climate policies Wednesday, including rules that…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The story of human evolution in Europe has a new character. Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — It’s a two-for-one cosmic deal. NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped with harpoon-like teeth are among 866…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key…

By Ella Nilsen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The environmental group targeted by the Justice Department over a federal grant is suing a bank…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Each time a robotic explorer launches from Earth, it faces innumerable challenges — any of which could cut…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have the first recorded video evidence of narwhals using tusks not only to strike and manipulate…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that was set to deliver a historic water-hunting mission to the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A striking new visualization made by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather unfurls like a flower blooming in the…

CNN By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Starship spacecraft, the upper portion of the most powerful launch system…

By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Starship spacecraft, the upper portion of the most powerful launch system ever…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is promising to unleash the US timber industry by allowing companies to raze swaths of…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A robotic lander named Athena has made its final descent to the moon’s surface, marking…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s twin Voyager probes, which launched 47 years ago, are shutting off some science instruments in an…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a collection of bone tools in northern Tanzania that were shaped by ancient…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based startup that on Sunday became only the second private-sector company to…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Citizenship of Nauru, an island nation spanning just 8 square miles in the southwest Pacific Ocean, can be yours…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The biggest iceberg in the world, named A23a, appears to have run aground after drifting around the Southern Ocean…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s tiny, but this lab mouse could have a mammoth impact. With curly whiskers and wavy, light hair that grows…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX is standing down from the eighth uncrewed test flight of its gargantuan Starship megarocket. The mission…

By Elizabeth McBride, CNN (CNN) — In broad daylight, law enforcement officers raid a warehouse on the outskirts of the city of Sukhumi in…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An uncrewed spacecraft developed in the United States has successfully soft-landed on the…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Leonardo da Vinci excelled in the fields of art and science, but the Italian polymath was also a highly skilled…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Federal regulators have cleared the way for SpaceX to launch another test flight after its Starship spacecraft…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mars may have once hosted an ocean with waves that lapped against sandy beaches 3.6 billion years ago,…

By Chris Lau, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — Pandas famously love bamboo but the fluffy mammals actually have digestive systems typical of animals that…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — February ends with a treat for sky-gazers: a parade of seven planets across the night sky, including Mercury,…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Glass rarely forms naturally from organic materials. However, in 2020, researchers discovered a black, glassy…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission aboard its tourism rocket, expected to lift off this spring, will…

By the Associated Press MANDAN, North Dakota (AP) — An attorney for a Texas pipeline company said Wednesday at trial that he will prove various…

By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — The historic Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is experiencing a “dramatic…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two robotic landers, one from the United States and the other from Japan, are currently in transit toward the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has been sharing dazzling visuals of our celestial neighbor since it successfully…

By Ella Nilsen and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump swept into office with a three-word energy policy: Drill baby drill. In…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Runes, the oldest form of writing in Scandinavia, are the result of what happened when one community met…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Some House Democratic lawmakers are raising “deep alarm” over Department of Government Efficiency’s…

By Ella Nilsen and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering. This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA confirmed Thursday that the space agency may have sidestepped the sweeping layoffs it was expected to…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Large reserves of white hydrogen may exist within mountain ranges, according to a new study, raising hopes this…

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian king has been unearthed, in what has been called a “remarkable”…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — If you think you have your egg-boiling technique down to a science, there is still a chance you haven’t…

By Ella Nilsen and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials scrambled through the weekend amid a flood of criticism to claw back…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — One of Earth’s deepest mysteries lies beneath our feet: the planet’s inner core. Made of iron and nickel,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according…

CNN By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National…

By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin has announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce — or more than 1,000 employees —…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The remains of an ancient basilica that would have formed the heart of Roman London have been uncovered during…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using a giant network of sensors, still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean…