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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have scoured the depths of the ocean and outer space for microbes to help slow global warming. They’re…

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — A hoard of Norman-era silver coins unearthed five years ago in southwestern England has become Britain’s…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A massive space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, slammed into Earth more than 3 billion…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The famous Halley’s comet is about halfway through its roughly 76-year orbit of the sun, having reached its…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor seems nearly as alien as the surfaces of other…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like…

Story by Reuters (CNN) — The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The origin of modern humans’ long-standing love affair with carbs may predate our existence as a species,…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Clean energy executive Cary Kottler was one of millions who lost power and heat as winter storm Uri, as it was…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, scientists have found evidence that marine mammals could be inhaling microplastics,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have uncovered communities of animals such as tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves…

By Gina Park and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Keep your eyes along the horizon at dusk to witness a stunning lunar display rise this evening.…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way,…

By Stephanie Elam, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Beautiful beaches. Majestic mountains. Hollywood. One more thing Southern California is known for:…

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life has…

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 cities across the US are celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day today. The alternative to…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX successfully launched the latest test flight of Starship Sunday morning, the most…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Federal regulators granted SpaceX its long-awaited license to move forward with a fifth uncrewed test launch of…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — William Fulford moved from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to a new waterfront development in Florida in 2023. Nestled…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The icy extremes of Earth have long beckoned explorers with the promise of discovering uncharted territory.…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — At the heart of the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, carved into pink sandstone cliffs, lies an elaborate monument…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during construction of a railway…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New observations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show that the…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When a National Geographic documentary team discovered a boot and sock sticking out of a melting glacier on Mount…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have identified the cannibalized remains of a senior officer who perished during an ill-fated 19th…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new 3D scan has revealed previously unseen details of the wreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Colorful auroras could be visible in areas of the United States such as Alabama and Northern California —…

By Ashley Strickland and Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered comet, known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, will make its closest…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The exceptionally warm water of the Gulf of Mexico that supercharged deadly Helene last month was made up to 500…

By Christian Edwards and Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial…

By Christian Edwards and Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for…

By Vasco Cotovio, CNN Lisbon (CNN) — For three days in mid-September, wildfires rapidly tore through parts of Portugal, turning the sky a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A European spacecraft and two shoebox-size satellites have launched to survey the aftermath from NASA’s…

By Christian Edwards and Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Keep your eyes on the night skies to see the elusive Draconid meteor shower, expected to peak Monday evening…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — “Jurassic Park,” and its genetically modified dinosaur escapees, is pure science fiction — it’s never going…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The best minds in science will be thrust from academic obscurity into the spotlight this week when the Nobel Prizes…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For humans, flashing a smile is an easy way to avoid misunderstanding. And, according to a new study, bottlenose…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life at an alarming rate as the region is gripped by…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If snapshots of the dazzling “ring of fire” that danced across the skies of South…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The wreck of a US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been found off the coast of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the…

By Amy Gunia and Alkira Reinfrank, CNN (CNN) — Apollo mission astronauts who visited the moon between 1969 and 1972 found a hopping motion…

CNN By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — A week ago, Helene was plowing into Florida, thrashing cities and towns on the Gulf Coast while millions of…

CNN By Laura Paddison and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Asheville was touted as a climate haven, a place to escape the worst ravages of extreme…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The NASA team overseeing the iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft made the decision to power down one of its science…

By Laura Paddison and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Asheville was touted as a climate haven, a place to escape the worst ravages of extreme weather.…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A medallion containing some of the original mold involved in the discovery of penicillin is expected to fetch…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A solar eclipse event will create a “ring of fire” in the skies over parts of South America on Wednesday,…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Denmark have unearthed more than 50 “exceptionally well preserved” skeletons in a large…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Part of the border between Italy and Switzerland is set to be redrawn as the glaciers that mark the boundary…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of years ago in the Himalayas, a river ate a smaller river and gave an unexpected boost to…

Story by Associated Press (CNN) — Britain’s last coal-fired power plant will close on Monday, ending 142 years of coal-generated electricity…

By Laura Paddison and Gianluca Mezzofiore, CNN (CNN) — Huge tributaries that feed the mighty Amazon River — the largest on the planet —…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After their weeklong journey turned into a monthslong stay on the International Space Station, two Boeing…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After their weeklong journey turned into a monthslong stay on the International Space Station, two Boeing…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Today, the lush, green valley surrounding the Tollense River in northeast Germany appears to be a serene…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX mission due to unite the Boeing Starliner astronauts with the spacecraft that will bring them home has…

By Billy Stockwell, CNN (CNN) — Two climate activists in their early 20s were sentenced to prison by a London court Friday for throwing soup…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in Peru, assisted by artificial intelligence, have discovered 303 previously unknown giant…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — No trees have grown on the windswept Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic Ocean for tens of thousands of years —…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Some types of sea robins, a peculiar bottom-dwelling ocean fish, use taste bud-covered legs to sense and dig…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — It was an orca-versus-dolphin matchup, and the dolphin didn’t stand a chance. In coastal waters near Chile…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have uncovered a woolly rhino so well preserved in the Russian permafrost for more than 32,000 years…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Bronze Age desert dwellers unearthed from graves in what’s now northwest China were buried with cheese scattered…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have observed a massive pair of jets releasing from a supermassive black hole 7.5 billion…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have discovered a new species of ghost shark that lives in deep ocean waters near Australia and New…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A mysterious type of magma found within extinct volcanoes scattered around the world could contain an abundant…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A new analysis of dozens of arrowheads is helping researchers piece together a clearer portrait of the…

By Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — California Attorney General Rob Bonta filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil on Monday alleging the company carried…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will speak at Climate Week NYC on Tuesday, touting his administration’s vast climate agenda…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Komodo dragons with iron-tipped teeth. Thirteen-foot-long pythons. Attacking crocs. Of the five main classes of…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On a summer’s evening in 2019, Zach Sheldon watched huge chunks of ice break off Valdez Glacier in Alaska as…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “His birth was unknown, his death hidden.” So reads the headstone (translated from Latin) marking the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Earth is about to gain a new “mini-moon,” but it won’t stay around for long. The newly discovered…

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — Scientists in the United Kingdom have stored the entire human genome on a “5D memory crystal,” in the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Scientists using ice-breaking ships and underwater robots have found the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica is…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As Artemis II — NASA’s mission that will send four astronauts to circumnavigate the moon as soon as next…

CNN By Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched to the International Space Station in June on the…

By Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — When NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams launched to the International Space Station in June on the first…

CNN By Michelle Cohan, CNN (CNN) — With its long, ridged horns and muscular build, the giant sable antelope is a majestic sight — and a rare…

By Michelle Cohan, CNN (CNN) — With its long, ridged horns and muscular build, the giant sable antelope is a majestic sight — and a rare one…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The dappled starlight and swirling clouds of Vincent van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” are thought to reflect the…

By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The bustling city of Shanghai marks national celebrations with world-famous light shows,…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In a Costa Rican rainforest, a small, semiaquatic lizard called a diving anole leaps into a stream. Minutes…

By Issy Ronald and Eyad Kourdi, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have unearthed the ancient remains of an Egyptian army barracks and the artifacts…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers around the world were able to glimpse a partial lunar eclipse while September’s full harvest…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA have successfully fired up a set of thrusters Voyager 1 hasn’t used in decades to solve…

By Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Zimbabwe has authorized a mass slaughter of elephants to feed citizens left hungry by its worst drought in…

By Ella Nilsen and CNN Chief Climate Correspondent Bill Weir Becker, Minnesota (CNN) — The smokestacks on the aging Sherco coal power plant…

CNN By Andrew Torgan and Daniel Wine, CNN (CNN) — When you think deeply about pizza — and who doesn’t — do you think of the frozen food…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home, capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Some chapters of human history are more poignant to revisit than others. The Battle of Waterloo ended a…

CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of…