Giant, 60-foot octopuses were apex predators 100 million years ago, fossil discovery shows
By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Giant octopuses measuring up to 62 feet (19 meters) in length were among the top ocean predators around 100 million…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Giant octopuses measuring up to 62 feet (19 meters) in length were among the top ocean predators around 100 million…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Congressmembers from both sides of the aisle are vowing to reject the White House’s proposal to slash NASA’s…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Like the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Gibraltar, which lies between the southern tip of Europe and the…
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By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — After a more than three-month meteor shower drought, you can finally look to the skies again for a cosmic display.…
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By Antoinette Radford, Billy Stockwell, Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of…
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By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf lies an ecological wonder. The highly contested Strait of Hormuz…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in…
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CNN, NASA, NASA VIA YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM | @ASTRO_CHRISTINA By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The critical system of ocean currents which loops around the Atlantic Ocean is weakening and could be far closer…
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By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs,…
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By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — Camera traps have photographed a jaguar high up in the Honduran Sierra del Merendón mountain range, the first time…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (Houston) — It was a hero’s welcome for the four-person Artemis II crew following a textbook…
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By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (Houston) — It was a hero’s welcome for the four-person Artemis II crew following a textbook…
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By Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission, which…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II astronauts have faced down numerous dangers on their historic moon mission — including…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II astronauts have faced down numerous dangers on their historic moon mission — including…
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By Deblina Chakraborty, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Before four Artemis II astronauts strapped into their Orion capsule to soar toward the…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species toward the brink of extinction — the emperor penguin…
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high. In an Ipsos poll conducted last week just after…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As the Artemis II astronauts hurtled around the moon during their historic flyby, basking in unprecedented views…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from…
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CNN By Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission,…
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By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside —…
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By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — It was a moment for the history books: The Artemis II mission performed its much anticipated…
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CNN, NASA, NASA VIA YOUTUBE By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission is now headed back toward…
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CNN, NASA, ESA By Ashley Strickland (CNN) – The Artemis II mission has broken the record for the farthest distance humans have traveled from…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey…
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KCNC, COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, CNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are declaring their earliest water restrictions in history,…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As four astronauts soar deeper into space than humans have traveled in decades, a quarter million miles away,…
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? Those prehistoric creatures who met their end…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Awe-inspiring new photos captured by the Artemis II astronauts showcase the moon and the interior of the…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage.…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission crossed a crucial and historic threshold Thursday…
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By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission is now headed back toward Earth, with four astronauts…
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By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA released the very first images taken by astronauts aboard the Artemis II Orion capsule as…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A warship that sunk after it was attacked by Adm. Horatio Nelson and the British fleet 225 years ago has been…
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By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has shown how easy it is to for one country to turn…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four…
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CNN, NASA, BILL INGALLS, NASA/ Bill Ingalls By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at…
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By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Sky watchers caught the spring season’s first full moon rising in the night sky. April’s full pink moon peaked…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Several high-ranking Trump officials that make up the so-called “God Squad” voted on Tuesday to quash…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — There is nothing more thrilling than seeing a spacecraft launch — especially on a journey to the moon. More…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When marine biologist Shane Gero spotted a plume of blood spreading across the water where a group of sperm…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The first woman. The first person of color. The first Canadian. The four people who will soon step aboard a…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A small amount of antimatter took to the road on Tuesday, representing the first time any quantity of the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Right now, the Arctic is maxing out on sea ice – the cold of winter has built up over months of darkness, and…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An archaeologist has found remains he believes belong to the famed French musketeer D’Artagnan at a church in the…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and steadily moving — a process known as plate tectonics.…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s new chief is reshaping the space agency’s goals, unveiling at an event in Washington, D.C., on…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The tragic tale of Harold, the king who lost England to William the Conqueror in an infamous battle, still looms…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For more than 30 years, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization has told us how terrible things…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Cambodia’s largely unexplored limestone caves stretch for thousands of miles, are home to countless…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A coalition of 40 Democratic states, cities and counties sued the Trump administration on Thursday, challenging the…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A fossilized skull and jawbones found in Niger belonged to a creature that had a large, bony crest atop its head…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — As humans burn fossil fuels and pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are heating up the planet. But there…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Rainbow trout is a prized catch for fisherman on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, in the high plains of…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot…
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By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA has finished a crucial risk assessment ahead of its upcoming lunar flyby mission, and during a news…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — During California’s worst dry spell in the past 1,200 years, some populations of wildflowers defied the odds to…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A large space probe plummeted into Earth’s atmosphere early Wednesday — years earlier than expected. And…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set…
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By Ella Nilsen, Amy O’Kruk, Samuel Hart, CNN (CNN) — The current war in the Middle East has sent the price of oil spiking — and with it, US…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense…
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By Sam Peters, CNN (CNN) — Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — There was a decisive winner to the Lower 48 states’ split screen winter — a battle between frigid cold in…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Is the world getting hotter, faster? It’s a big question which has been puzzling and dividing scientists for…
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By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way,…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists are one step closer to understanding the origins of complex life on Earth after shedding new light…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Sea levels along the world’s coastlines are much higher than previously assumed, more than 3 feet in some…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A total lunar eclipse is turning the moon a deep reddish-orange on Tuesday for sky-gazers in Asia, Australia, the…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — In the waters off Singapore, a recently uncovered a shipwreck with a huge cargo of blue-and-white porcelain is…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has confirmed that he was the crew member who had a concerning “medical…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Efforts to get NASA’s historic moon mission off the ground have stalled once again, as engineers navigate a…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Last week, the Trump administration delivered a catastrophic blow to US climate policy by repealing the…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key…
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