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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…

By Sneha Dhandapani, CNN Four miles from the Eiffel Tower, a photographer captured the full moon’s path over a pink Paris skyline. In China,…

CNN, DR. KATHRYN AYRES, FRONTIERS OF ETHOLOGY By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — How hard do you have to ram a fish to make it explode? Ask an…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — How hard do you have to ram a fish to make it explode? Ask an orca. Barreling into large, heavy fish with…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The combined water level in two of the United States’ biggest reservoirs, Lake Powell and Lake Mead, has…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As the number of satellites orbiting Earth continues to grow, so does the risk of crashes between these…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Houseboats lie perched on desiccated riverbeds, receding water levels have left wide stretches of newly exposed…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Putting your own mask on before assisting others was only supposed to be a safety instruction on an airplane,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Pompeii is often thought of as an undisturbed time capsule, a once-bustling port that fell silent after Mount…

By Kasha Patel, Chiara Negrello, CNN Scardovari, Italy (CNN) — As the sun was rising, two fisherwomen dragged their boat through the Scardovari…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — When the Eaton fire swept through the Los Angeles neighborhood of Altadena last year, it claimed 19 lives and…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Bronze Age remains once thought to belong to a revered male metalworker are in fact female, new DNA analysis…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new species of monkey with distinctive orange lips and a deep roaring call has been identified in the Democratic…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A groundbreaking mission that explored Pluto and distant solar system objects in unprecedented detail has…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A meteorite weighing more than 2 pounds (1 kilogram) that crashed through the roof of a New Jersey home two…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Since the mysterious deaths of a husband and wife in the Medici family, a powerful Italian dynasty that ruled…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a natural sugar found in raspberries in clouds of interstellar dust and gas near the…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton from South Dakota has become the world’s most expensive fossil sold at auction,…

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…