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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As rural communities across the United States wage intensifying battles to keep AI-computing data centers out of…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The organizers of a highly regarded scientific photography contest are reviewing this year’s winning entry following…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A celebrated space telescope is rapidly dipping from its once-stable orbit and falling to Earth just shy of…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The most powerful rocket ever made, SpaceX’s Starship, reached orbit for the first time on Monday, deploying…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The oceans are warming at an alarming pace, bringing far-reaching consequences for which the world is…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Opening a Bible that once belonged to Thomas Jefferson, staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of American…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — There are two new contenders for the world’s loudest bird – and scientists are not being quiet about it.…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An unusual rock buried on the far side of the moon is providing fresh clues for a longstanding scientific puzzle:…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Months after NASA’s leadership issued a scathing indictment of Boeing’s Starliner capsule — saying the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — People near the sandy shores of Texas’ southernmost coastline are accustomed to the earth-shattering roar of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Get ready for a celestial double treat. The first full moon of the fall season will reach peak illumination…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — If the sight of a spider already makes your skin crawl, you might find the two sea spider species newly…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Sea turtles usually found in the tropics have been spotted nesting on California beaches — a historical first,…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Kent Hups set out one morning on a research expedition in the famed Hell Creek Formation, a series of…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Nearly half a million people across the world could lose their lives by February due to El Niño-driven extreme…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Charred to a crisp during Mount Vesuvius’ eruption in AD 79, hundreds of papyrus scrolls lie tucked away…

By Deblina Chakraborty, CNN (CNN) — The moon’s surface experienced a violent encounter with a comet or an asteroid — and has a massive…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When birds are chirping, humans may feel a little more at ease. But some bird vocalizations seem to strike a…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A new analysis of the road network of the Roman Empire has dispelled the enduring myth that all roads lead to…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists said they have detected an unexpected and prolonged increase in seismic activity at North Korea’s…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — If, like Elon Musk, you have been dreaming of a future in which large populations of humans can live on the moon,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The water cycle you were taught in school is being thrown off balance by fossil fuel pollution, bringing a host…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The catastrophic August flooding on the Nepal-China border was influenced by a complex cascade of factors, many…

By Kate S. Petersen, CNN (CNN) — A bipartisan group of lawmakers on Capitol Hill is pushing back on a seismic shift in US environmental…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have suspected for nearly 60 years that Tyrannosaurus rex was warm-blooded. When a fossilized…

By Molly Finlay, Charlotte Reck, CNN (CNN) — A stunning video capturing intricate cell movement in a child living with a rare genetic disorder…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Tiny feathers encased in fossilized poop are helping scientists understand why some birds made it through the mass…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has finalized the repeal of regulations that limit the amount of planet-heating…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An international team of scientists says it has detected an intriguing signal that could hint at evidence of dark…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The prehistoric remains of two foragers found on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi contain telltale signs…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In the arid, inhospitable climate of western Iran’s Zagros Mountains, life has found a remarkable way to…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — As blistering temperatures baked London this summer, people started to notice strange things happening to their…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Telltale wrinkles that cover Mercury, the closest planet to the sun, suggest it was once a larger world that…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Earth just had its hottest August on record and tied the benchmark for the hottest month ever recorded since at…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The United States just had its hottest summer in 132 years of recordkeeping, soundly beating the summer of 1936…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists excavating a cave in southwestern China have unearthed fossilized remains that belonged to an…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Wildfires are ripping across parts of Indonesia, destroying precious peatland and smothering the country in a…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The largest dinosaurs that ever lived were able to reproduce at high latitudes — or regions far from the equator…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The sea level along California’s coast will increase by about a foot by mid-October due to the influence of…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — One company has a simple-sounding plan to help save the planet: take a food additive and the mineral that makes…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is proposing the creation of a “United States Space Academy” designed to offer the…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The mundane work of clearing grass and stones in a backyard has led to the discovery of Denmark’s largest known…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A miles-long microalgae bloom in the Mediterranean Sea has been blamed for temporarily knocking offline many of…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Think of scientific research and you may picture white lab coats, microscopes or arrays of high-end equipment — but…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An ambitious mission to reveal the secrets of the least explored planet in the inner solar system is taking…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In January 2025, the Trump administration cut off funding for a long-running natural hazards program that aimed…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Hunters wiped out thylacines, commonly known as Tasmanian tigers, in Australia nearly a century ago. But a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A massive observatory that scientists have called a “discovery machine” has launched toward the cosmos,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — During a visit to NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory three years ago, I stepped into a blinding white room.…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Living in the shadow of the world’s spectacular, ice-capped mountains has always carried dangers, but the…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The climate pattern that drives El Niño is becoming more erratic as the planet warms, and El Niño itself is…

By Amen Galinato, CNN (CNN) — August’s full sturgeon moon will align with a partial lunar eclipse, producing a stunning cosmic sight for…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Clues emerging from DNA could unlock the mystery of human ancestors that are missing from the fossil record yet…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX on Tuesday unveiled plans to construct a massive, $100 billion spaceport in Louisiana, where the company…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Last week the Trump administration announced major cuts to the water Arizona, California and Nevada can take…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In February 1998, almost a year’s worth of rain fell in downtown Los Angeles, as a series of powerful Pacific…

By Jackie Wattles, Simone McCarthy, CNN (CNN) — The anticipated launch of China’s robotic Chang’e-7 mission, designed to scour the moon’s…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For the second week in a row, Hawaii is in the crosshairs of an intensifying tropical storm. As of 5 a.m. ET,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Arizona, California and Nevada will be forced to make deep cuts to the water they draw from the imperiled…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A 400-year-old grave held the body of a young woman, the rusted blade of a sickle over her throat and a padlock…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mars has two tiny moons that lack a confirmed origin story for how they came to orbit the red planet — but…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A satellite called LINK that recently launched to boost the orbit of a falling space observatory won’t be…

By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New images from a NASA satellite orbiting the moon reveal a fresh, 60-foot-wide crater formed…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Lake Powell, the second-largest reservoir in the United States, provides water and electricity to millions in…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A faint ribbon of stars in a distant galaxy has led astronomers to a discovery that could reveal secrets about…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If Wednesday’s total solar eclipse sparked your excitement for viewing a stellar spectacle, pull on your…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — There is a nearly 70% chance that the building Super El Niño will be the strongest such event on record,…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It’s something every dog owner knows — but now we have the science to prove it: Dogs really can tell when…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Longtime NASA astronaut Mike Fincke is stepping away from his role at the space agency. The news comes months…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The grand stellar spectacle of the year — a total solar eclipse — dazzled the skies over parts of Europe…

By Amen Galinato, CNN Some sky-gazers may see a dazzling meteor shower coincide with a total solar eclipse in a rare celestial alignment this week.…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is ending federal support for the flagship annual report on the state of the Arctic…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — July was the hottest month ever recorded in the United States, according to data released Monday by the…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Michael Zeiler is currently aboard the expedition ship Ocean Explorer, heading to the fjords of Greenland to…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN Rome (CNN) — Italian spear fisherman and diver Giacomo De Mola couldn’t believe his eyes when what he thought was…

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — The first two months of summer in western Europe have been the hottest on record, the European Union’s climate…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A daring mission to rescue one of NASA’s crucial space observatories from falling to Earth has encountered…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A gravity-defying competition that brewed in the background of geopolitics for decades is now roaring to the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Lake Mead, the largest reservoir in the United States, has fallen to a record low — yet another sign that the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An ambitious effort to boost an aging probe on its journey through the uncharted territory of interstellar…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The skies of Oklahoma City roared for six months in 1964 as military aircraft intentionally rattled the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s most powerful solar telescope has captured the highest resolution observations of the sun’s…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — In the heart of urban Los Angeles lie the La Brea Tar Pits, a group of natural asphalt seeps made famous by the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Relentless heat and a dearth of rain are having a punishing effect on some of Europe’s most vital rivers. The…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When the next hurricane heads toward Florida, some people won’t have to join the lines of traffic slowly…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Sticky “hairs” on two plant species in the Saxifraga genus led famed British naturalist Charles Darwin to…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Part of a SpaceX rocket traveling at more than 5,000 miles per hour crashed into the moon early Wednesday…

By Jackie Wattles, Thomas Bordeaux, CNN (CNN) — Space exploration enthusiasts have been tracking the unprecedented journey of SpaceX’s latest…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The scintillating cosmic phenomenon of a total solar eclipse will be visible to millions of people across…

By Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Bobcat Cave near Huntsville is home to the endangered Alabama cave shrimp, two species of cave crayfish and the southern…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — California, Arizona and Nevada will be required to slash their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Europe’s summer of extraordinary heat and drought has pushed some of its rivers to record lows, revealing…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have detected promising signs that a planet orbiting a star 49 light-years from Earth could…

Barbie Latza Nadeau Rome (CNN) — The new trees meant to provide much-needed shade in Rome’s Piazza Risorgimento were burnt to a crisp.…

By Amen Galinato, CNN A double meteor shower peak will occur this week — but sky-gazers might have a difficult time catching a glimpse of the…

CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The vast blazes ripping through southwestern France burned so intensely they created a powerful,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The vast blazes ripping through southwestern France burned so intensely they created a powerful, fire-generated…

By Amen Galinato, CNN July’s full moon will grace the sky this week. Called the buck moon, it will rise in the east and reach peak illumination at…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have revised the longstanding picture of “Nutcracker Man” — an extinct hominin, or human…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When astrobiologist Adam Frank walked into the office of NASA scientist Gavin Schmidt, he had what he believed…