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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — About 67 million years ago, two dinosaurs faced off in a showdown in what’s now Montana before being buried together in a single grave. It’s unclear which dino won the battle. The Triceratops horridus and Tyrannosaurus rex each died sporting battle scars. The Triceratops fossil emerged first as it

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Jupiter’s iconic Great Red Spot is a massive storm that has swirled within the atmosphere of the largest planet in the solar system for years. But astronomers have debated just how old the vortex really is, as well as when and how it formed. Some experts believed it was

By Jackie Wattles and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — Boeing and NASA announced Friday night that mission officials are again delaying the Boeing Starliner capsule’s return to Earth from the International Space Station. The announcement is only the latest in a string of recent delays. Officials have pushed back the Starliner spacecraft’s departure date several

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of monumental stone heads dot the coastline of the remote Pacific island of Rapa Nui, or Easter Island. Settled by a small group of Polynesian seafarers about 900 years ago, it’s a fascinating place that has been the subject of fierce debate about how complex societies can sometimes ruinously

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — Same-sex sexual behavior has been observed in more than 1,500 animal species, but a new study has found that it is massively underreported by researchers. Observations of this same-sex behavior in animals, such as sexual mounting and genital touching, date back to the 1700s and 1800s. But research on

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Despite its name, June’s full moon will not look like a strawberry. But the bright orb could still turn heads Friday night with an appearance that is bigger and more colorful than the average moon. The full moon — which will reach the crest of its fullness at 9:08 p.m. ET

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — For more than a year, visitors at the Museum of Evolution in Maribo, Denmark, have been in for a treat: admiring a previously unknown species of dinosaur that didn’t have a name. The placard next to the animal’s large, wonderfully ornate skull — reminiscent of a Triceratops — simply

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world consumed record amounts of oil, coal and gas last year, pushing planet-heating carbon pollution to a new high, according to a report published Thursday, shattering climate scientists’ hopes that global energy emissions may have peaked. The growth in fossil fuels drove a 2.1% increase in energy-related emissions

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft was set to mark its crowning achievement this month: Ferrying two NASA astronauts on a round trip to the International Space Station, proving the long-delayed and over-budget capsule is up for the task. Starliner is halfway to that goal. But the two veteran astronauts piloting this

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Democrats and Republicans in a bitterly divided Congress can agree on one thing: the US needs more nuclear to power America’s rapidly growing energy appetite — and fast. The Senate overwhelmingly approved a major bill Tuesday night to make it easier, cheaper and faster to permit and build new nuclear reactors.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers are witnessing a never-before-seen spectacle in the cosmos: the awakening of a supermassive black hole at the center of a distant galaxy. In late 2019, a team of astronomers took notice of an otherwise unremarkable galaxy named SDSS1335+0728, 300 million light-years away in the Virgo constellation. A sudden

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A 2,000-year-old Roman funerary urn unearthed in southern Spain has been shown to contain the oldest wine ever found still in liquid form. Discovered during home renovations at a property in Carmona in 2019, the contents of the urn were analyzed by a team of scientists from the University

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have discovered a 246 million-year-old marine reptile fossil, the oldest of its kind to be found in the Southern Hemisphere, shining a new light on the early evolution of marine mammals. The greatest mass extinction event in the fossil record – known as “The Great Dying” – occurred

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It was a shock when Michael Mosley, a doctor and well-known TV presenter in the UK, was found dead earlier this month after hiking in scorching temperatures on the Greek island of Symi. But it is now one of a series of tourist deaths and disappearances in Greece as

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Voyager 1 spacecraft is sending back a steady stream of scientific data from uncharted territory for the first time since a computer glitch sidelined the historic NASA mission seven months ago. Currently the farthest spacecraft from Earth, Voyager 1 stopped communicating coherently with mission control in November 2023.

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two veteran astronauts will extend their stay on the International Space Station as teams on the ground work to better understand issues with the Boeing-built spacecraft that carried them to orbit. Boeing and NASA officials said Tuesday that Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who arrived at the space

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — For about 50 years, the scientific community has been grappling with a substantial problem: There isn’t enough visible matter in the universe. All the matter we can see — stars, planets, cosmic dust and everything in between — can’t account for why the universe behaves as it does, and

CNN By Laura Paddison and Fidel Gutiérrez, CNN (CNN) — Tensions are rising in a border dispute between the United States and Mexico. But this conflict is not about migration; it’s about water. Under an 80-year-old treaty, the United States and Mexico share waters from the Colorado River and the Rio Grande, respectively. But in

By Laura Paddison and Fidel Gutiérrez, CNN (CNN) — Tensions are rising in a border dispute between the United States and Mexico. But this conflict is not about migration; it’s about water. Under an 80-year-old treaty, the United States and Mexico share waters from the Colorado River and the Rio Grande, respectively. But in the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A collision between giant asteroids likely occurred in a neighboring star system called Beta Pictoris in recent years, and two different space observatories are helping to tell the tale. The Beta Pictoris system, located just 63 light-years from Earth, has long intrigued astronomers because of its proximity and age.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In the early 1900s, Antarctica became a hot spot for explorers undertaking intrepid but dangerous expeditions. Polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton and his crew of 27 men set off aboard the HMS Endurance in 1914. But Endurance became trapped in ice, documented in dramatic images by the crew’s official photographer.

By Jared Formanek, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — For Māori conservationist Mere Takoko, “losing one whale is like losing an ancestor.” The animals “taught our people about navigation across the Pacific, particularly across the Milky Way… And this is information that was given to our ancestors.” The environmental activist from the small town of Rangitukia,

When the sun unleashed an extreme solar storm and hit Mars in May, it engulfed the red planet with auroras and an influx of charged particles and radiation, according to NASA.

By the Associated Press (AP) — A big, round, 4,000-year-old stone building discovered on a Cretan hilltop is puzzling archaeologists and threatening to disrupt a major airport project on the Greek tourist island. Greece’s Culture Ministry said Tuesday that the structure is a “unique and extremely interesting find” from Crete’s Minoan civilization, famous for its

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of fish species — about 2,500 of them named — call the Amazon River home, but scientists estimate nearly half of the marine creatures lurking in the massive stretch of water remain undiscovered. While studying piranhas and pacus in an effort to better assess vital fish biodiversity in the 4,000-mile-long

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — On the western slopes of the Andes in Ecuador, John L. Clark, a research botanist at Florida’s Marie Selby Botanical Gardens, happened upon what he calls a miracle. In an area of formerly lush cloud forest known as Centinela devastated by clearing, Clark spotted a tiny, 2-inch-high (5-centimeter) plant

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An amateur paleontologist has discovered a new species of pterosaur, a flying reptile that lived alongside dinosaurs around 100 million years ago. Kevin Petersen, an avocado farmer and curator of the Kronosaurus Korner fossil museum in northwest Queensland, Australia, unearthed a number of fossilized bones in western Queensland in

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — What would be the ultimate solution to the energy problems of an advanced civilization? Renowned British American physicist Freeman Dyson theorized it would be a shell made up of mirrors or solar panels that completely surrounds a star — harnessing all the energy it produces. “One should expect that,

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Shipwreck hunters have found the vessel Quest — once captained by renowned Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton — largely intact on the ocean floor, 15 nautical miles off the coast of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society has announced. Shackleton was aboard the famed exploration ship when he died of a

CTV NETWORK, ROYAL CANADIAN GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY, CNN By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Shipwreck hunters have found the vessel Quest — once captained by renowned Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton — largely intact on the ocean floor, 15 nautical miles off the coast of Canada, the Royal Canadian Geographical Society has announced. Shackleton was aboard the famed

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The ancient Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula has long been associated with human sacrifice, with hundreds of bones unearthed from temples, a sacred sinkhole and other underground caverns. A long-held misconception is that the victims were often young and female — an impression that has

By Rob Picheta, CNN The Eurovision Song Contest is back in Britain for the first time in more than two decades, and this year’s edition is one of the most anticipated ever. But the famously kitsch competition can be confusing, to say the least. Here’s what first-timers need to know about Eurovision — and how

By Joe Sutton and Holly Yan, CNN, and Claudia Rebaza, Jimena de la Quintana and Florencia Trucco, CNN en Español The prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of the late American teen Natalee Holloway will be extradited to the US to face extortion and fraud charges, said officials in Peru, where Joran van der Sloot

By Sahar Akbarzai, Stefano Pozzebon and Jonny Hallam, CNN David Miranda, a Brazilian politician, has died following a nine month battle in intensive care, according to a tweet on Tuesday from his husband, journalist Glenn Greenwald. He was 37 years old. “It is with the most profound sadness that I announce the passing away of

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN London’s Metropolitan Police Service has expressed “regret” over the arrests of anti-monarchy activists on Saturday, the day of King Charles III’s coronation. It comes after the Met initially defended the dozens of arrests made on Saturday following fierce backlash, with many accusing the force of taking a heavy-handed approach toward demonstrators

By David Culver, Karol Suarez and Rachel Clarke, CNN The freight train screeched to a halt and a few hundred people hoped that a new phase of their life was about to begin. One father, Leuman Varela, told CNN he, his wife and their four children had spent four days and nights on top of

By Max Foster and Lauren Said-Moorhouse, CNN King Charles III and Queen Camilla have shared their “most sincere and heartfelt thanks” in a new message from the monarch released by Buckingham Palace on Monday, as the coronation long weekend comes to an end. The newly-crowned sovereign wrote that he and his wife wanted in particular

By Duarte Mendonca A fire in a small gold mine in southern Peru has killed at least 27 people, the local government said on Sunday. “We express our solidarity with the families of the miners who died after a fire in the shaft of the Yanaquihua mine in the Arequipa region,” the Peruvian Council of

By Duarte Mendonca and CNN Brasil Brazilian Federal Police arrested one of former President Jair Bolsonaro’s closest aides and two others, in connection to the investigation of a gang that allegedly falsified data on Covid-19 vaccination cards, according to CNN affiliate CNN Brasil. Sixteen search and seizure warrants and six arrest warrants were also served,

By Patrick Oppmann, CNN As the gas lines grow longer, tempers in Cuba are growing shorter. Since mid-April, Cuba has been beset with its most dire fuel shortages in years, prompting comparisons to the severe disruptions Cubans suffered after the fall of the Soviet Union. Lines stretch for blocks even at gas stations where there

Emi Jozuka, CNN Visitors staying at Tokyo Haneda International Airport’s newly opened hotel can enjoy plane-spotting and views of Mount Fuji — all from a rooftop hot spring. Opened last December, the Hotel Villa Fontaine Premier & Grand Haneda Airport has 1,717 rooms and is directly connected to Haneda International Airport Terminal 3. Along with

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN Single people should be honored as much as couples and families, the Church of England has said, pointing to Jesus’ own single status. A report published Wednesday focuses on families and relationships befitting a diverse society, with one of its key messages to “honour singleness and single person households.” The “Love

Reuters The number of offices sold in Europe slumped to its lowest level on record in the first three months of 2023, according to MSCI Real Assets data released Thursday. The volume of transactions in Europe’s largest real estate sector also fell to a 13-year low of €10.8 billion ($11.94 billion). European commercial real estate

By Julia Jones, CNN Attorneys for former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro say he had only accidentally created a Facebook post questioning the results of 2022’s presidental elections — a post that has come under the scrutiny of authorities investigating whether the ex-leader had a role in inciting the country’s January 8 riots. Bolsonaro’s Facebook post

By Natasha Chen, CNN Disney will pull certain fire effects from shows at their resorts worldwide after an animatronic dragon caught fire at Disneyland in Southern California on Saturday, company officials say. “We are temporarily suspending fire effects similar to those used at Disneyland park’s Fantasmic at select shows and entertainment experiences globally out of