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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…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is beginning its fifth day in orbit, having marked a few record-setting milestones…

By Kara Fox, CNN London (CNN) — As right-wing rioters attacked communities with racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The two NASA astronauts who piloted the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule — and were…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In the hopes of solving one of the enduring mysteries about the iconic monolith, geologists have shifted the…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When you’re a predatory fish, sometimes the lunch you gobbled up doesn’t agree with you. Rather than…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG…

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

By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was…

CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A four-person crew of civilians on board SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission unlocked the…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A pile of amputated limbs and the remains of several military horses have been excavated at the site of the…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A four-person crew of civilians on board SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission unlocked the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission kicked off early Tuesday, launching a four-person crew of civilian astronauts…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two telescopes have spotted the closest pair of supermassive black holes to date. The duo, only about 300…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Picture a clock ticking so steadily that it doesn’t lose a second, even after running for 1 billion…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s latest mission — a bold and risky trek into Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts by a…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s latest mission — a bold and risky trek into Earth’s Van Allen radiation belts by a four-person…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Europa Clipper spacecraft passed a key milestone on Monday and is on track to launch next month to…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Well-preserved fossils of ancient large reptiles called pterosaurs have revealed that some species flew by…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Inside a highly classified facility in Oak Ridge, Tennessee — the same facility that enriched uranium for the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ties van der Hoeven’s ambitions are nothing if not grand. The Dutch engineer wants to transform a huge stretch…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As astronauts and engineers are fond of saying, space is hard. But that has never stopped bright minds from…

KABC, KCAL, KCBS, KCRA, CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The deep landslides beneath the multimillion-dollar homes in Rancho Palos Verdes…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The deep landslides beneath the multimillion-dollar homes in Rancho Palos Verdes moved at an almost glacial…

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — As astronauts and engineers are fond of saying, space is hard. But that has never stopped bright minds…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Boeing’s Starliner capsule returned from the International Space Station Friday evening…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When scientists attached a tag to a pregnant porbeagle shark in October 2020 to learn more about the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Summer broke global heat records for the second straight year, scientists have confirmed — putting 2024 firmly…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Jupiter’s moon Ganymede may have shifted on its axis when a massive asteroid smashed into it about 4…

By Radina Gigova, CNN London (CNN) — A “remarkable” Pictish ring with “an intricate setting” was discovered in Scotland by an amateur…

By Monica Garrett and Steve Tuemmler, CNN (CNN) — A roughly 1-meter (3-foot) asteroid burned up in Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A wheeled bot rolls across the floor. A soft-bodied robotic star bends its five legs, moving with an awkward…