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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two robotic landers, one from the United States and the other from Japan, are currently in transit toward the moon — and a third has just joined them. The latest contender is a standout: The spacecraft, called Athena, was built by Houston-based Intuitive Machines, which so far is the

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the bold California startup AstroForge in 2022 with the aim of hunting for precious metals in space, and he is all too aware that success is not guaranteed. And, quite frankly,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the potential source of that distinctive coloring, overturning a popular theory in the process. Mars is one of the most well-studied planets in our solar system due to its proximity to

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of impacting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and the European Space Agency. NASA estimates that the space rock has a 0.0017% chance of hitting Earth in December 2032, while the

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has been sharing dazzling visuals of our celestial neighbor since it successfully entered the moon’s orbit on February 13. The new footage features a close-up of the moon’s far side, an area that is not visible from Earth, taken after the lander transitioned from

By Ella Nilsen and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump swept into office with a three-word energy policy: Drill baby drill. In Trump’s telling, unleashing US oil drilling will reduce gas prices — and thereby Americans’ cost of living — and increase the nation’s energy independence. But there is a very simple reason

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Runes, the oldest form of writing in Scandinavia, are the result of what happened when one community met another. Early Scandinavians began trading goods with the Roman army within the first few centuries AD. Experts believe the Roman alphabet may have inspired the Scandinavians to create their own writing

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger, nearly 2,000-year-old slab, new research has found. Now, scientists in Norway are working to reassemble the ancient puzzle, a process that’s starting to shed light on who carved the mysterious

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Some House Democratic lawmakers are raising “deep alarm” over Department of Government Efficiency’s interactions with NASA and potential conflicts of interest in a new letter released Friday. “The lack of transparency surrounding DOGE’s presence and activities within NASA is ominous and unacceptable,” reads the letter, which is signed by

By Ella Nilsen and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report to stop their work, according to a scientist involved in the report – the latest move to withdraw the US from global climate action and research. The US had been highly involved

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering. This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the isthmus of Panama to connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, is an artery of world trade and a key source of Panamanian pride. But it’s in trouble. More frequent, intense droughts have

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA confirmed Thursday that the space agency may have sidestepped the sweeping layoffs it was expected to implement this week, potentially saving hundreds of newly hired employees and career professionals. In a statement, the agency said it worked with the Office of Personnel Management — which has been at

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but birds-of-paradise are especially flamboyant with hues of emerald, lemon, cobalt and ruby. Now, research has revealed these stunning birds are also sending secret color signals that are invisible to human eyes. Plumage and

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA calculated that the space rock had a 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, while the European Space Agency’s risk assessment sits at 2.8%. The narrow difference is due to the two

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Large reserves of white hydrogen may exist within mountain ranges, according to a new study, raising hopes this clean-burning gas can be extracted and supercharge efforts to tackle the climate crisis. White hydrogen has recently gained attention for its potential to help replace planet-heating fossil fuels. It was only

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian king has been unearthed, in what has been called a “remarkable” discovery by officials. A joint Egyptian-British archaeological mission identified the tomb as belonging to King Thutmose II, an ancient Egyptian king who reigned sometime between 2000 and 1001 BC, the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The constant, rapid-fire display includes seconds-long short flashes and longer, blindingly bright flares of light on a daily basis. The Webb observations mark

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — If you think you have your egg-boiling technique down to a science, there is still a chance you haven’t prepared the “perfect” boiled egg. Boiling an egg flawlessly is challenging because the albumen — or egg white — and the yolk have different compositions, requiring them to be cooked

By Ella Nilsen and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials scrambled through the weekend amid a flood of criticism to claw back employees they fired Thursday evening at the National Nuclear Security Administration, four people familiar with the terminations — and their fallout — told CNN. More than 300 employees were initially fired

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, but the entire lineage was wiped out about 25 million years ago, leaving prehistorians to grapple with what caused the apex predator to go extinct. Now, an international

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — One of Earth’s deepest mysteries lies beneath our feet: the planet’s inner core. Made of iron and nickel, the hot, solid sphere is about 70% the size of the moon. Recent research suggested this dense center reversed its spin, and now, scientists have also found evidence that the shape

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according to NASA and the European Space Agency. While the odds of an impact are slim, astronomers are closely tracking the space rock to uncover more details — a process that

CNN By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. Sources told

By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear Security Administration — the agency tasked with managing the nation’s nuclear stockpile — as part of broader Energy Department layoffs, according to four people with knowledge of the matter. Sources told CNN

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into “zombies.” The fungus lures them out of their webs before instigating an untimely death and then uses the spiders’ corpses to spread its spores. The newly discovered species, named Gibellula attenboroughii, acts in

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight and have been in low-Earth orbit since June — want to set the record straight: They aren’t stranded on the International Space Station, and they weren’t abandoned. The duo made

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight and have been in low-Earth orbit since June — want to set the record straight: They aren’t stranded on the International Space Station, and they weren’t abandoned. The duo

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin has announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce — or more than 1,000 employees — nearly a month after the company debuted its first orbital rocket, New Glenn. In an email to staff sent Thursday, which CNN obtained, Blue Origin CEO David Limp said

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way galaxy. The ancient object formed when the universe was less than 10% of its current age of 13.8 billion years, according to a new study. “This is the largest radio

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The remains of an ancient basilica that would have formed the heart of Roman London have been uncovered during building work in the center of the British capital. About 2,000 years old, the basilica would have housed the tribunal, where magistrates, officials and politicians would have deliberated important decisions

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a vast alien-like installation of hundreds of thousand of mirrors pointed at three towers, each taller than the Statue of Liberty. When this plant opened near the California-Nevada border in

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using a giant network of sensors, still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, have found the highest-energy cosmic “ghost particle” ever detected. The neutrino, as the particle is formally known, is 30 times more energetic than any of the few hundreds of previously detected neutrinos.

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with few visible landmarks. Now, a new study, published Wednesday in the journal Nature, reveals loggerhead turtles, the most abundant sea turtle species nesting in the United States, learn the magnetic fields of specific

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study suggests. In the study, published last week in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers examined the bones of at least 10 people from the Magdalenian culture who lived in

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — In what’s been called a world first, consumers in the UK are now able to buy a pet treat made with lab-grown meat. The treat contains plant-based ingredients and 4% chicken meat cultivated in a lab by Meatly, a London-based startup that last year became the first company in

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Tuesday said it may bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first crewed test flight and have remained on the space station months longer than expected — a couple weeks sooner than previously announced. The space agency said

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers with the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission have captured an unprecedented look at a rare cosmic phenomenon — and they made the observations purely by happenstance. Their discovery is tied to some of the earliest data from the Euclid telescope, which launched in July 2023 to study the

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Unprovoked attacks by sharks declined sharply in 2024, with 47 incidents logged worldwide, down 22 from the previous year and significantly below a 10-year average of 70, according to new figures released Tuesday. The United States experienced the highest number of unprovoked attacks by sharks, with 28 reported incidents,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of planets in the night sky before they fade from view. This phase of the moon will peak at 8:53 a.m. ET Wednesday, but the glowing orb will appear full

By Brenda Goodman and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Scientists, faculty and staff at Emory University received an alarming email Saturday: An announcement of funding caps from the National Institutes of Health meant scientists and their labs at research institutions across the US would need to tighten their belts. For the Atlanta-based school, a preeminent

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — On the heels of the revelation that Boeing is planning to lay off as many as 400 workers from its Space Launch System program, NASA has called the SLS megarocket “essential” to its Artemis moon landing program — sowing confusion about what, exactly, may change for both the launch

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new revelation about our planet’s deepest secrets — they identified changes to the inner core’s shape. Earth’s innermost layer is a hot, solid ball of metal surrounded by a liquid metal outer core.

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Swaths of the US may be grappling with frigid weather, but for the planet as a whole, heat records are being obliterated — and it spells very bad news. Two new studies conclude it’s a signal the planet is likely on track to breach the Paris climate agreement goal

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The challenge of unearthing lost things and solving inscrutable puzzles is a driving force in the world of science. Such breakthroughs rarely happen in the derring-do fashion of the “Indiana Jones” films that inspired me to search for lost cities in my childhood backyard. Rather, some of the groundbreaking

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a Friday afternoon email to NASA staff, the agency’s acting chief asked employees to embrace the philosophy of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, as workers express concern over recent directives and anti-diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility (DEIA) communications. In her email, NASA Acting Administrator Janet

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention of the astronomy community now has a slightly increased risk of affecting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 2.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, according to the European Space Agency. The risk assessment has

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The existence of the US Agency for International Development hangs in the balance. President Donald Trump is racing to shut it down, declaring it a waste of money and run by “lunatics.” But experts warn this plays straight into the hands of the very country he considers to be

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers unwittingly began paying attention to its movements once again. Observers spotted and correctly identified the vehicle as it started its extraterrestrial excursion in February 2018 — after it had blasted off into

By Ella Nilsen and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A representative from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was granted access to the Energy Department’s IT system on Wednesday by Energy Secretary Chris Wright, two people with knowledge of the situation told CNN. Wright granted access to DOGE representative Luke Farritor — a

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding the pattern and structure of turbulence — a natural phenomenon observed in fluids such as moving water, ocean currents, chemical reactions, blood flow, storm clouds, plumes of smoke and even the plasma of stars. While turbulent flow is chaotic and irregular,

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79. The artifact, which is kept at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries in the United Kingdom, is the fifth intact Herculaneum scroll to be virtually

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause substantial global damage, even though it’s a fraction of the size of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, according to new research. Astronomers estimate that Bennu has a 1 in

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today, a new study has found. The 68 million-year-old fossil belongs to an extinct species of bird known as

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to them to change their behavior, a new study shows. Researchers from Johns Hopkins University studying bonobos found that they would point to where treats were hidden if they could see their

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to Earth’s Grand Canyon, are hidden on the far side of the moon — the side that

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Images from space reveal an enormous X-shaped building rising up from rocky terrain in southwestern China. This is a huge nuclear fusion research facility, analysts say, and it could be a sign China is leaping ahead in the quest to harness this futuristic energy source. It could also mean

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate illustration of the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and a historical enigma. Several mysteries still surround the dazzling embroidery, including the identity of its maker, but

By Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water that could hold the key to future lunar exploration, as the country pushes forward with its ambitious space program. The robotic “flying detector” will be

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons of water flow out of reservoirs, after President Donald Trump ordered the release with the misguided intent to send water to fire-ravaged Southern California. Trump celebrated the move in

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) in a bid to save their species from extinction have “given birth” to 33 froglets at London Zoo. Originally from Parque Tantauco, a remote part of an island off the coast of Chile, the Darwin’s frog species is

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The arrival of a baby swell shark at an aquarium in Louisiana has caused a wave of excitement, after the egg hatched despite the fact that no male sharks appear to have been involved. Shark pup Yoko was born in early January, Shreveport Aquarium said, having hatched from an

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare cache to our planet has been one of NASA’s boldest feats yet. And now, the daring OSIRIS-REx mission is bearing scientific fruit. When the spacecraft completed its long journey home more

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around Earth, the Texas-based company Firefly Aerospace announced this week. The two images — which the company posted Monday on the social media platform X — features a view of the moon

By Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s an urban myth, but scientists are warning cities across the globe are becoming far rattier, and the boom is primarily driven by one factor: climate change.

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have observed a free-living mushroom coral, Cycloseris cyclolites, actively “walking” toward blue light waves in a way that’s reminiscent of the pulsed swimming motion of jellyfish, a new study has revealed. Most corals are

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting Earth. Named 2024 YR4, the asteroid has a 1.2% chance of hitting our planet on December 22, 2032, the European Space Agency and NASA have found. But that also means

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an unexpectedly monthslong assignment after serving on Boeing’s Starliner crewed test flight, conducted a spacewalk Thursday. The duo ventured outside the International Space Station to remove degraded radio communications hardware and collect samples that may show whether microorganisms exist

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists investigating a roughly 5,000-year-old tomb in southwestern Spain say the women laid to rest there were buried with a staggering number of white beads that would have been threaded together to form elaborate, shimmering outfits. Beads appear regularly in the archaeological record as a form of adornment, currency

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples collected from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, adding evidence to the idea that asteroids likely delivered the building blocks of life to our planet early in its history. The samples are also providing a window into understanding

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a piece of animal vomit dating back 66 million years on a beach in Denmark. Peter Bennicke noticed a “strange small cluster of lily pieces in a piece of chalk” at Stevns Klint in eastern Denmark, according to a statement from Geomuseum Faxe,

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a post on the social media platform X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed Tuesday that the Biden Administration left two astronauts “stranded” and said President Donald Trump has asked SpaceX to step in to rescue them. But NASA already put such a plan in place months ago when

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny QR codes glued onto their backs. By recording when bees entered and exited their hives, scientists from Penn State University (PSU) discovered that, while most journeys last only a few minutes,

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a symbolic attempt to gauge how close humanity is to destroying the world. On Tuesday, the clock was set at 89 seconds to midnight — the closest the world has ever been

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the historic portrait that had just been captured. Not a single Mount Lyell shrew had ever been photographed alive before, making them the only known mammal species in California to have eluded human cameras,

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon” may actually be a chunk of the moon that chipped off thousands of years ago. The celestial near-Earth object, known as 2024 PT5, measures about 33 feet (10 meters) wide; however,

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of wildfires tear through southern Italy every year, fueled by scorching temperatures and the hot, dry, sirocco winds that sweep in from the Sahara. The climate crisis is pouring gasoline on these blazes, but the Mafia may be lighting the spark, according to new research. While hot, dry

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The story of how humans evolved is a long and winding one — and it grows more complicated with each passing year. Discoveries in the past two decades have added new branches to the human family tree, including species such as the hobbit-like Homo floresiensis and the powerfully built

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, President Donald Trump authorized action to end “radical and wasteful government DEI programs and preferencing.” Employees in federal positions overseeing Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red planet that likely sculpted the towering formations. More than 15,000 mounds jut skyward from the lowlands of Mars’ Chryse Planitia, located near a natural dividing line between the planet’s southern and northern

CNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts. Increasingly frequent weather disasters have strained its workforce and drained its Congress-funded coffers. And, since the first Trump administration, the agency has had further strain from bankrolling Covid recovery and paying

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts. Increasingly frequent weather disasters have strained its workforce and drained its Congress-funded coffers. And, since the first Trump administration, the agency has had further strain from bankrolling Covid recovery and paying states

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As more than 60 square miles Los Angeles violently burned earlier this month, then-President Elect Donald Trump placed blame on a fish. Trump falsely implied in a Truth Social post that Los Angeles lacked the water to put out the fires because Gov. Gavin Newsom chose to protect an

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or categorization. The skull fragments, teeth, jaws and other remains unearthed at different sites across the country are clearly remnants of archaic hominins — the formal name for species in the human lineage — who

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued astronomers since the first detection of the phenomenon in 2007. The enigmatic signals, known as FRBs, release as much energy in less than the blink of an eye as the sun emits in one

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded to a devastating volcanic eruption nearly 5,000 years ago, a new study has found. Scientists discovered the first of these small, carved stone artifacts in 1995 at a Neolithic site called Rispebjerg

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — The size of human beings has increased over the past century thanks to better health and nutrition — but this change has not occurred equally among men and women, a new study shows. Men have grown taller and heavier at more than twice the rate of women, according

By Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The streets of Beijing have changed dramatically within just a few years. The noisy, smelly thrum of traffic has been replaced by an unusual quiet for a megacity. Roads course with a stream of mostly electric vehicles, all with their distinct, green license plates. This is

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — It was a simple, sunny afternoon on Canada’s Prince Edward Island as Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura Kelly, set off to walk their dog. Noticing a stray leash lying in the yard, Velaidum briefly stopped to pick it up before setting off on a quick walk. Minutes later,

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released a new model tracking the position of the magnetic north pole, revealing that the pole is now closer to Siberia than it was five years ago and is continuing to drift

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Nic Arnzen can spot people who, like him, have lost their homes to the LA wildfires. “We have the same look in our eyes, the same zombie-like walk,” he said. Arzen’s home in Altadena, a diverse community nestled in the foothills of the San Gabriel mountains, was consumed by

CNN By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump began his term by taking a series of sweeping immigration executive actions Monday that included declaring a national emergency at the US southern border, immediately ending use of a border app called CBP One that had allowed migrants to legally enter the United States,

By Ella Nilsen, Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed executive actions Monday and cemented his intent to double down on fossil fuels and reverse America’s progress on climate change and clean energy, including signing orders to pull United States out of the Paris climate agreement. Trump’s day-one actions come

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Eric Mauchan’s Cape Cod-style house in Framingham, Massachusetts, does not have central air conditioning. So when the summer heat bears down, his four window AC units, two dehumidifiers and fans that keep the 2,600-square-foot home cool push his electricity bill to roughly $200 a month. In the depths of

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Landing on the moon is one of the most challenging things humanity has attempted. Perhaps that’s part of what drives us to keep trying. Years before astronauts are set to return to the lunar surface, a stream of robotic explorers are carrying the ambitions of private companies aiming for

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first controlled clinical trial recorded in the modern age, carried out in 1747 to test treatments for scurvy, may have drawn inspiration from the nephew of Sir Isaac Newton’s laboratory assistant, according to new research. Today, clinical trials are an essential part of medical research that can lead

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific Ocean’s seabed, where no light can penetrate, was a scientific bombshell. Initial research suggested potato-size nodules rich in metals, predominantly found 4,000 meters (13,100 feet) below the surface in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone,

CNN By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species after purchasing crustaceans from fishermen and restaurants in Vietnam to study the growing popularity of the creatures as a local delicacy. The deep-sea critter, now called Bathynomus vaderi, got its name after researchers noticed its head shared a resemblance

By Jackie Wattles and Kia Fatahi, CNN (CNN) — US regulators and government officials in Turks and Caicos are looking into reports of property damage in the island nation caused by debris falling after a SpaceX Starship vehicle exploded over the ocean during a test mission Thursday, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. Flights of

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, a location beyond Earth has been listed as vulnerable by the World Monuments Fund, an international nonprofit that every two years highlights 25 heritage sites at risk. The Fund included the moon on its 2025 Watch list due to the dawn of a new Space