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By Laura Paddison, CNN The Dead Sea (CNN) — The motorboat cut through the aquamarine water of the Dead Sea, past dazzling-white formations…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN The Dead Sea (CNN) — The motorboat cut through the aquamarine water of the Dead Sea, past dazzling-white formations…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — For years, the federal government has been working on turning old, unexploded warheads left over from the Cold War…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Five months into his fourth International Space Station mission, veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke was having…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Temperature records are being smashed across Europe as parts of the continent swelter in a heat wave that is…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists may have finally solved the riddle of Tyrannosaurus rex’s small arms, which have always stood out as…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — New Orleans is locked into a watery future which could see it surrounded by ocean as early as this century,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An unusual collection of stars may represent the remnants of a dwarf galaxy that the Milky Way devoured about…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A NASA spacecraft bound for an unusual metallic asteroid recently made a strategic flyby of Mars — and its…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — After a seven-month hiatus, SpaceX is set to launch a new, more powerful version of its Starship megarocket —…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Nereid, Neptune’s third-largest moon, could be the only intact survivor from an ancient set of moons destroyed…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Deep in the ocean is a worm that makes its home inside a “glass castle,” a mysterious “ghost shark” and…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The coming “Super” El Niño is poised to affect the lives of hundreds of millions of people worldwide as it…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An asteroid roughly the size of one to two school buses will fly by Earth Monday, coming as close as 91,593…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The discovery of some bones at the edge of a pond in Thailand a decade ago has led to the identification of a new…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A prehistoric human known as Homo erectus was the first of our forerunners to leave Africa, crossing continents and…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An unusual tooth found in a cave offers a rare glimpse into a surprising procedure prehistoric humans might…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Sub-Saharan Africa could split up in a few million years, and scientists believe they might be witnessing the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Cuba is struggling with devastating nationwide blackouts as the United States’ effective oil blockade…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have identified the remains of four members of a doomed 19th century expedition in the Arctic by…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On one day in late April, something very unusual happened. Every single one of the planet’s top 50 hottest…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — For decades, it seemed Antarctica might be insulated from the kind of rapid ice melting unfolding in the Arctic.…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have named a newly identified species of wasp after David Attenborough to honor the legendary…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have announced the results of a decade-long quest to measure Newton’s gravitational constant, the force…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is doubling down on efforts to delay the buildout of wind energy, this time focusing on…
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By Ella Nilsen, Sam Hart, CNN (CNN) — The world’s second-tallest tsunami wave on record tore through the remote Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Mexico City is sinking at such an alarming rate that it’s visible from the space. Imagery from a powerful NASA…
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By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — Early birds are in for a celestial treat this week as activity from the Eta Aquariid meteor shower heats up —…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have detected a thin atmosphere around a tiny celestial body in the outer solar system for the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Out in the Pacific Ocean, between Hawaii and California, is the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a swirl of plastic…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using radio telescope observations to get an inside look at an interstellar comet have gleaned…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Human children often copy their friends’ preferences for toys or clothes, while adults are prone to jumping on…
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By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers will be in for a treat this month with two full moons gracing the sky. The first, which has the…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working at the ancient city of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt have unearthed a mummy with a passage from…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A Massachusetts-based fusion company took another step this week in its race to become the first to get the same…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The moringa tree, known as the “miracle tree”, is one of the most nutrient-dense plants on the planet and is…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — “Terrain ahead. Pull up!” It’s a command that should only be heard in a disaster movie or flight simulator.…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from our planet, has powered down another science instrument as it…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Six of the world’s biggest fossil fuel companies are on track to make almost $3,000 in profits every single…
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By Stefano Pozzebon, Avery Schmitz, Abigail Watts, Jhasua Razo, CNN BOGOTÁ, COLOMBIA (CNN) — It took 20 minutes for decades of family memories…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Curiosity rover has uncovered the most diverse array of organic molecules ever found on Mars, including…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Giant octopuses measuring up to 62 feet (19 meters) in length were among the top ocean predators around 100 million…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Congressmembers from both sides of the aisle are vowing to reject the White House’s proposal to slash NASA’s…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Like the Strait of Hormuz, the Strait of Gibraltar, which lies between the southern tip of Europe and the…
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By Avni Trivedi, CNN (CNN) — After a more than three-month meteor shower drought, you can finally look to the skies again for a cosmic display.…
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By Antoinette Radford, Billy Stockwell, Farida Elsebai, CNN (CNN) — Multiple oil spills are visible from space after Iranian and US-Israeli…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Aaron Sandel can pinpoint when it all started. The codirector of the Ngogo Chimpanzee Project had been observing…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Mars may have once had an ocean so vast that it covered one-third of the planet before evaporating billions of…
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By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Not far from the vessels stuck in the Persian Gulf lies an ecological wonder. The highly contested Strait of Hormuz…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in…
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CNN, NASA, NASA VIA YOUTUBE, INSTAGRAM | @ASTRO_CHRISTINA By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four Artemis II astronauts, fresh off a bold and risky mission that captured the hearts of a world in…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The critical system of ocean currents which loops around the Atlantic Ocean is weakening and could be far closer…
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By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs,…
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By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — Camera traps have photographed a jaguar high up in the Honduran Sierra del Merendón mountain range, the first time…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (Houston) — It was a hero’s welcome for the four-person Artemis II crew following a textbook…
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By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (Houston) — It was a hero’s welcome for the four-person Artemis II crew following a textbook…
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By Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission, which…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II astronauts have faced down numerous dangers on their historic moon mission — including…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II astronauts have faced down numerous dangers on their historic moon mission — including…
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By Deblina Chakraborty, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Before four Artemis II astronauts strapped into their Orion capsule to soar toward the…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The story of a 300-million-year-old fossil has been rewritten after scientists discovered that it doesn’t actually…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Climate change is pushing two iconic Antarctic species toward the brink of extinction — the emperor penguin…
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By Ariel Edwards-Levy, CNN (CNN) — Americans’ opinion of space exploration is pretty high. In an Ipsos poll conducted last week just after…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As the Artemis II astronauts hurtled around the moon during their historic flyby, basking in unprecedented views…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The traditional six-sided die has been around since the Bronze Age, with the earliest known pieces from…
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CNN By Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — After months of anticipation, the monumental 10-day Artemis II mission,…
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By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The Orion spacecraft may only be the size of two minivans on the inside —…
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By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — It was a moment for the history books: The Artemis II mission performed its much anticipated…
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CNN, NASA, NASA VIA YOUTUBE By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission is now headed back toward…
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CNN, NASA, ESA By Ashley Strickland (CNN) – The Artemis II mission has broken the record for the farthest distance humans have traveled from…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey…
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KCNC, COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, CNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are declaring their earliest water restrictions in history,…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As four astronauts soar deeper into space than humans have traveled in decades, a quarter million miles away,…
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By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? Those prehistoric creatures who met their end…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Awe-inspiring new photos captured by the Artemis II astronauts showcase the moon and the interior of the…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage.…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission crossed a crucial and historic threshold Thursday…
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By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission is now headed back toward Earth, with four astronauts…
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By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA released the very first images taken by astronauts aboard the Artemis II Orion capsule as…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A warship that sunk after it was attacked by Adm. Horatio Nelson and the British fleet 225 years ago has been…
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By Laura Paddison, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Iranian blockade of the Strait of Hormuz has shown how easy it is to for one country to turn…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four…
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CNN, NASA, BILL INGALLS, NASA/ Bill Ingalls By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at…
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By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four…
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By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Sky watchers caught the spring season’s first full moon rising in the night sky. April’s full pink moon peaked…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Several high-ranking Trump officials that make up the so-called “God Squad” voted on Tuesday to quash…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — There is nothing more thrilling than seeing a spacecraft launch — especially on a journey to the moon. More…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When marine biologist Shane Gero spotted a plume of blood spreading across the water where a group of sperm…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The first woman. The first person of color. The first Canadian. The four people who will soon step aboard a…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A small amount of antimatter took to the road on Tuesday, representing the first time any quantity of the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Right now, the Arctic is maxing out on sea ice – the cold of winter has built up over months of darkness, and…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An archaeologist has found remains he believes belong to the famed French musketeer D’Artagnan at a church in the…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and steadily moving — a process known as plate tectonics.…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s new chief is reshaping the space agency’s goals, unveiling at an event in Washington, D.C., on…
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