Millions saw unexpected northern lights, as a wild solar storm unfolded across the world
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For two nights, dazzling auroras delighted sky-gazers in unexpected places, including in the US as far south…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For two nights, dazzling auroras delighted sky-gazers in unexpected places, including in the US as far south…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom pulled no punches at the COP30 climate talks in Brazil on Tuesday, calling…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Bumblebees can process the duration of flashes of light and use the information to decide where to look for food, a…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet’s biggest climate conference, COP30, has kicked off with representatives from more than 190…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A 62-page document written by President Donald Trump’s on-again-off-again pick to run NASA, billionaire Jared…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Off Brazil’s northeastern coast, where the sediment-heavy water of the vast Amazon River tips out into the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — New Glenn, the towering orbital rocket that Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin designed to compete with SpaceX’s…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Twin spacecraft are set to take off on an unprecedented, winding journey to Mars, where they will investigate…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted the largest and most distant flare ever observed from a supermassive black hole.…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — How often do you think about the Roman Empire? For a team of international researchers who went all in and…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Lakes in the Amazon became hotter than the maximum temperature recommended for hot tubs as unprecedented heat…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Ricardo Teixeira has spent the past few weeks freshening up Love Lomas, the “love motel” he owns in the…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Spotted from an airplane by remote sensing equipment, a vast and ancient Maya complex was hidden from view for…
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By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Get ready for a double celestial event this week. November’s full beaver supermoon will peak at 8:19 a.m. ET…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have long wrestled with how to differentiate between male and female dinosaurs based on their…
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By Ella Nilsen, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Alarm is growing among federal workers at NASA’s iconic Goddard Space Flight Center’s main…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists working in Mexico have recorded multiple incidents in which a group of orcas hunt young great white sharks…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration does not intend to send a high-level delegation to the COP30 climate summit — or…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — An Antarctic glacier shrunk by nearly 50% in just two months, the fastest retreat recorded in modern history,…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A suggestion made last week by acting NASA administrator Sean Duffy that SpaceX could be booted from the…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have found a way to test ancient human remains for hormones linked with pregnancy, a breakthrough…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun, setting…
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CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An interstellar comet that originated outside our solar system just made its closest pass of the sun,…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A legendary fossil housed at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh features skeletons apparently…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — During an expedition to search for a famed shipwreck, researchers discovered something unexpected: striking…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Glowing bats may sound like Halloween decor, but researchers in Georgia have discovered certain species of North…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The water around Jamaica had been simmering all summer. By the time Hurricane Melissa roared ashore Tuesday,…
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CNN By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The water around Jamaica had been simmering all summer. By the time Hurricane Melissa roared ashore…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Recent analysis of two fossils from Australia, estimated to be about 50,000 years old, suggests that…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Near the end of his reign, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led an army of over half a million men in an…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A type of mosquito that was believed to have evolved in the London Underground has a much older origin in the…
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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — In the badlands of eastern Wyoming, the Lance Formation is a trove of prehistoric fossils. And one area in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A site in the San Juan Basin of northwestern New Mexico is providing a rare glimpse into the last days of the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Elkhorn and staghorn corals used to carpet Florida’s reef system, rising like antlers from the seabed — but…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Tropical Storm Melissa is expected to meander the Caribbean at an agonizingly slow pace in the coming days,…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Billion-Dollar Weather and Climate Disasters Database, which the Trump administration “retired” in May,…
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By Hadas Gold, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk lashed out at Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy in a series of insulting posts on his…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Iceland’s frozen, inhospitable winters have long protected it from mosquitoes, but that may be changing. This…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA may sideline SpaceX and choose a different company to land its astronauts on the moon later this decade,…
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By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers worldwide will see a brilliant celestial display this week as the Orionid meteor shower peppers the sky in…
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By Laura Paddison, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A fierce Trump administration push to stop the global shipping industry from paying for its own…
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By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Affordable, versatile, incredibly strong and locally available, concrete is the world’s most used manmade…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Few city rats have left their mark on the public consciousness — and the urban landscape — like the one…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The first known hand fossils from an extinct human relative have been unearthed in Kenya, revealing a species with…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An unusual double-ring structure spotted in space with the help of citizen scientists has turned out to be a…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s luck appears to be turning, as the company notched a second straight successful test flight of the…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration’s cancellation of the largest solar project in the United States has sparked confusion…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The total solar eclipse in North America on April 8, 2024, temporarily reset the biological clocks of some…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The planet is grappling with a “new reality” as it reaches the first in a series of catastrophic and…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Calls for the United States to return astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade have been increasingly…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The bearded vulture, a large bird of prey with an unusual diet consisting primarily of bones, has long…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Planet-heating methane is escaping from cracks in the Antarctic seabed as the region warms, with new seeps being…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two newly discovered comets are streaking across the sky in a spectacular display as they make their closest…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Twenty years’ worth of imagery captured by two orbiters circling Mars has revealed raging winds on the red…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hovering blue flames that flicker over bogs and marshes have inspired ghostly folktales for centuries. Known…
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By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Two meteor showers are set to captivate sky-gazers as they peak in October, with the Draconids making a brief…
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By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A trio of scientists have been awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is eyeing cutting funds for two major climate pollution projects in Texas and Louisiana,…
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By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2025 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to a trio of scientists – a Briton, a…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “She was doomed, no ship built by human hands could have withstood the strain.” When polar explorer Ernest…
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By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Keep your eyes along the horizon on Monday night to see the first supermoon of the year. October’s full moon, also…
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By Christian Edwards, Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2025 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to a trio of scientists – two…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s the time of year when leading scientists might not want to let any calls go to voicemail. Prizes in…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — The search for an unknown planet in our solar system has inspired astronomers for more than a century. Now, a…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Ice cream, mascarpone and milk-washed cocktails may sound like simple pleasures — but the ones served at a…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Some 15,000 NASA employees were sent home this week as a government shutdown began, halting work across much of…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — In the early hours of a late September morning, a container ship called the Istanbul Bridge set sail from China,…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Sexual behavior is one reason why female mammals typically live longer than their male counterparts, according to…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have observed a planet that in some ways behaves more like a star — including a massive growth…
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By Christopher Lamb, CNN (CNN) — Pope Leo XIV has called for pressure to be placed on governments to protect the environment as he stressed…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — While the Trump administration wages war against clean energy, it is now vowing to lease millions of acres of…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have used human skin cells to create fertilizable eggs capable of producing early embryos, an advance…
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By Amanda Schupak (CNN) — What do you get when you cross a blue jay with a green jay? That’s not the start of a joke, but the subject of a…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The discovery of a sunken port off the coast of Egypt may offer a puzzle piece in the longstanding search for…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is…
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By Ella Nilsen, Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — In a consequential move for the global climate, China committed Wednesday to reduce its…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A new interactive map and groundbreaking database allows people in the world’s largest metropolitan areas to…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Endangered leopard sharks have been observed mating in the wild for the first time, with scientists witnessing a…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Surrounding our solar system is a natural and enigmatic cosmic shield called the heliosphere — and a new…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN Day-one fans of Taylor Swift know that the pop superstar has come a long way since launching her music career as a country…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Many parts of world are predicted to endure “day-zero droughts,” periods of extreme and unprecedented water…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Monday introduced the 10 people — selected from a pool of 8,000 applicants — who will join the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers are trying to understand what caused a series of gamma ray bursts, or GRBs — the most powerful…
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By Gina Park, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers should get ready for a full day of celestial events on Sunday, including a partial solar eclipse in parts…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — A record-breaking and astonishingly expansive marine heat wave is underway in the Pacific Ocean, stretching…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Ever wondered whether painting a cow with zebra stripes might reduce the number of fly bites it gets, or which pizza…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers might be close to confirming the presence of an Earth-like atmosphere on an exoplanet for the first…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN Chimpanzees may consume the equivalent of about one alcoholic drink per day due to the ethanol contained within the fruit they…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The global water cycle has become “increasingly erratic and extreme” with wild swings between droughts and…
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By Taylor Nicioli A “ghost ship” that sank in Lake Michigan nearly 140 years ago and eluded several search efforts over the past five decades has…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A plan to genetically engineer a version of the dodo, a giant flightless bird that disappeared 400 years ago and…
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By Bill Weir, CNN Chief Climate Correspondent It was 1985, and improvised empathy was cool. News reports of families starving to death in…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — This summer scientists drilled deep below the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northeastern US and tapped into a…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a quasi-moon near Earth — and the small space rock has likely been hanging out…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — New England, long burdened with some of the nation’s highest electricity costs, is facing a growing energy…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hunter-gatherers in parts of ancient Asia prepared their dead for burial with smoke-drying up to 14,000 years…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have uncovered an unusual survival strategy in Iberian harvester ants that turns basic biology on…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration on Friday proposed to end a program requiring coal-fired power plants, industrial…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A clutch of 28 dinosaur eggs found in the Qinglongshan fossil reserve in central China is about 86 million…
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