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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — It’s been 13 years since the last large coal-fired power plant was built in the US. Now, the Trump administration…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Before he became the namesake of one of the largest predators that ever lived — or made it into the footnotes…

By Ella Nilsen, Kit Maher, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration reversed decades of longstanding environmental law protecting endangered…

By Amen Galinato, CNN Six mysterious metal spheres that washed ashore last weekend at Forrest Beach in northern Queensland, Australia, are…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration announced Friday it has reached a settlement over a major 2022 oil spill in Kansas from…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s plans for the future of SpaceX, and humanity, are rooted in an idea conceived in the 1960s when…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — If you happen to be right-handed, you may be able to trace the origins of that trait to a wormlike animal that…

By Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Wally Funk, a pioneering aviator who volunteered to be an astronaut for NASA’s “Women in…

By Mustafa Qadri, CNN (CNN) — For anyone who has ever wondered whether they could handle life on another planet, NASA is offering a chance to…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A disused airport on Tasmania’s rugged West Coast will soon be home to an angular steel structure with a…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A Super El Niño is brewing and it could be the most intense in decades, threatening a dramatic increase in…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Pioneering gene-editing treatments are already in clinical use, saving lives and easing the pain of devastating…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Ancient DNA revealed that our species, Homo sapiens, once interbred with Neanderthals, but what was the nature of…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A sudden electricity crunch in the US, driven by artificial intelligence, is colliding headlong with the Trump…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who captivated the world when he flew around the moon alongside three American…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Nomadic warriors called the Scythians roamed the Eurasian Steppe on horseback during the Iron Age. An elite…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Prehistoric human relatives, nicknamed “hobbits” due to their short stature, may have been scavengers,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mission to rescue one of NASA’s storied space observatories from falling to Earth has launched on a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New observations may offer fresh clues into how a giant exoplanet survived the violent death of its host star…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The balcony solar revolution is coming to the United States, but not everyone has been able to benefit. The nearly…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Every 40 seconds of nighttime for the next 10 years, a camera the size of a small car will capture strikingly…

CNN By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Summer has barely started in the Northern Hemisphere, but already it’s offering an oppressive preview of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Summer has barely started in the Northern Hemisphere, but already it’s offering an oppressive preview of life…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet’s oceans are at unprecedented temperatures for this time of year, breaking the all-time June…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s moon base plans, conceptualized just a few months ago, are rolling out in earnest as the space agency…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A fossil that was sitting in a collection drawer for decades has been found to belong to the first dinosaur remains…

By Amen Galinato, CNN The strawberry moon, which will be visible in the sky this week, will mark the first full moon of the summer. On Monday, just…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthal human-like creatures who lived as long as…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A papyrus scroll that was burned and carbonized when Mount Vesuvius erupted almost 2,000 years ago has been…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A distant star-forming galaxy nicknamed the “Shadow Blaster” could have sent a ghostly cosmic particle…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The record-shattering June heat that’s baked Europe this week would have been “virtually impossible” just…

By Amen Galinato, CNN (CNN) — An iron cannonball that may have played a role in the 1836 Battle of the Alamo has been unearthed in Texas,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s heat endurance continues as multiple countries are braced for triple digit temperatures Thursday. The…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Humanlike fossils have emerged from the deep and twisting caverns of the Rising Star cave system in South Africa…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — When massive 9.0 magnitude earthquake shook Japan on March 11, 2011, the ground also made a more lasting move. About…

By Laura Paddison, Mitchell McCluskey, CNN (CNN) — Brutal heat waves are coming more frequently in Europe, leaving millions of people…

CNN, AJAY NARENDRA ET AL, MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY, MGM, Ajay Narendra et al/ Macquarie University By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When most…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When most silk-spinning spiders hunt, they build a web and wait for prey to blunder into it. But a newly…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Relentless, deadly heat is tightening its grip on Europe, with temperature records expected to not just fall but…

CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe is sweltering under its second heat dome in two months, with temperatures spiking above 104 degrees…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Since most butterflies live a short time, fluttering between colorful flowers for a few weeks before dying, a…

WMC, US DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF MISSISSIPPI, STATE OF MISSISSIPPI, CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In a highly unusual move, the…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — A Roman villa with intricate mosaics has been unearthed on the outskirts of the Italian capital, in a…

By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is U-turning on its controversial decision to dismantle a critical ocean…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A 5,000-year-old structure discovered in southwest England may have been a prototype for the development of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A Japanese ship was in a convoy steaming through the South China Sea on September 21, 1944, with around 1,200…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Ealing, West London (CNN) — A few hundred feet from a McDonald’s and a strip mall, sandwiched between busy and…

By Sam Peters, CNN London (CNN) — When knights of old went looking for Robin Hood, they knew where to find him. The legendary outlaw has been…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Ancient DNA recovered from cemeteries in southeast Siberia has revealed previously unknown strains of plague…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In a highly unusual move, the US Justice Department has urged a federal court to throw out a lawsuit against…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have detected evidence of cosmic-scale wind coming from a supermassive black hole at the…

By Mustafa Qadri, CNN (CNN) — A cyclone that brought catastrophic flooding and devastating landslides to Indonesia wiped out more than 7% of…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists who recently piloted a submersible to a remote spot in the southeastern Indian Ocean have…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In the North Atlantic Ocean, south of Greenland and Iceland, a large patch of water is doing something very…

By Shraddha Chakradhar, CNN (CNN) — Imagine a huge scorpion the size of a baseball bat, scrambling over mossy rocks and around large, treelike…

By Issy Ronald, Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — An Iron Age Scottish woman likely had her brains scooped out after she died as part of her burial,…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Tuesday revealed the four astronauts who will join the next Artemis mission — a key, two-week flight…

CNN, HEALTHY SEAS, SDSS, GHOST DIVING, DERK REMMERS, Healthy Seas/SDSS/Ghost Diving/Derk Remmers By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — More than 132…

By Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — More than 132 feet below sea level, a diver was removing abandoned fishing nets from a shipwreck in the…

By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — A new image showcases a dazzling celestial object — a star, paired with another, in the throes of dying that…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Ötzi the Iceman, the well-preserved and well-studied mummy of a man who died 5,300 years ago, is a “dynamic…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A total solar eclipse will create a celestial spectacle in the sky for the first time in more than two years…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Determined researchers have found East Asia’s tallest known tree in a secluded valley near one of…

CNN By Ben Church, CNN (CNN) — Note: This is story first appeared in The Beautiful Game by CNN Sports, our daily newsletter on all things World…

By Katie Hunt, Jeremy Harlan, CNN (CNN) — When the World Cup starts next week, no one will be watching the pitch more closely than John Trey…

By Jackie Wattles, Deblina Chakraborty, CNN (CNN) — Five astronauts were forced to seek shelter aboard a spacecraft attached to the…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — German psychologist Wolfgang Köhler set up a famous experiment more than 100 years ago that changed how…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A 120 million-year-old fossil found in what’s now northwestern China is changing how scientists think about…

By Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Scientists across multiple disciplines are sounding the alarm after the White House proposed…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — An amateur metal detectorist unearthed an “extraordinary” gold ring dating back to Roman times in a field in…

By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has announced it will dismantle a $368 million deep-ocean monitoring…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A coalition of seven blue states sued the Trump administration Tuesday after it paid a French company nearly $1…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A Democratic senator is raising concerns that the Trump administration’s plans to let several private energy…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Experts advise that adults should sleep for around eight uninterrupted hours in a cool, dark room. If you do so…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When an underwater volcano erupted in the South Pacific in January 2022, it sent a plume of ash, steam and gas…

By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — You’ve probably heard the phrase “once in a blue moon.” Maybe you’ve even used it to describe an…

CNN By Deblina Chakraborty, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a ground test known as…

By Deblina Chakraborty, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A Blue Origin New Glenn rocket experienced an anomaly during a ground test known as a…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What does it mean to be alive? A new study on an astonishing sea creature suggests the answer may be more…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have long hailed Tyrannosaurus rex as king of the dinosaurs. Now, the name “T. rex” also…

By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have announced the discovery of a previously unidentified species of octopus found in the Galápagos…

CNN, CHARLES DARWIN FOUNDATION By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have announced the discovery of a previously unidentified species of…

By Laura Paddison, CNN The Dead Sea (CNN) — The motorboat cut through the aquamarine water of the Dead Sea, past dazzling-white formations…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — For years, the federal government has been working on turning old, unexploded warheads left over from the Cold War…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Five months into his fourth International Space Station mission, veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke was having…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Temperature records are being smashed across Europe as parts of the continent swelter in a heat wave that is…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists may have finally solved the riddle of Tyrannosaurus rex’s small arms, which have always stood out as…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — New Orleans is locked into a watery future which could see it surrounded by ocean as early as this century,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After a seven-month hiatus, SpaceX is set to launch a new, more powerful version of its Starship megarocket —…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Nereid, Neptune’s third-largest moon, could be the only intact survivor from an ancient set of moons destroyed…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Deep in the ocean is a worm that makes its home inside a “glass castle,” a mysterious “ghost shark” and…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The coming “Super” El Niño is poised to affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide as it…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 91,593…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The discovery of some bones at the edge of a pond in Thailand a decade ago has led to the identification of a new…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An unusual tooth found in a cave offers a rare glimpse into a surprising procedure prehistoric humans might…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the…