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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 lunar flyby yesterday, and came within just 4,067 miles of the moon. While soaring aboard their Orion capsule beyond the far side of the moon, the crew also reached an estimated

CNN, NASA, NASA VIA YOUTUBE By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission is now headed back toward Earth, with four astronauts having soared around the far side of the moon on an unprecedented path that reached deeper into space than any human has traveled before. The journey —

CNN, NASA, ESA By Ashley Strickland (CNN) – The Artemis II mission has broken the record for the farthest distance humans have traveled from Earth, which was set by the Apollo 13 mission in 1970. The Apollo record was 248,655 statute miles from Earth. Artemis II surpassed that marker at 1:56 p.m. ET. Artemis II

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The highly anticipated lunar flyby of the Artemis II mission will take four astronauts on a pioneering survey of the moon Monday, including the rarely glimpsed lunar far side, which always faces away from Earth. The crew, including NASA’s Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover and Christina Koch, and Canadian Space

KCNC, COLORADO DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY, CNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are declaring their earliest water restrictions in history, urging residents to cut back on the thirstiest water user: the classic American lawn. The state is now nearly half-covered by extreme drought conditions —

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Drought is spreading fast in Colorado and major cities are declaring their earliest water restrictions in history, urging residents to cut back on the thirstiest water user: the classic American lawn. The state is now nearly half-covered by extreme drought conditions — even though there was essentially no extreme

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As four astronauts soar deeper into space than humans have traveled in decades, a quarter million miles away, back on Earth, the White House has proposed slashing the budget of the space agency that sent them there. The proposal, released Friday, includes a request to give a billion-dollar boost

By Scottie Andrew, CNN (CNN) — Dinosaurs have been fearsome and fascinating — but tragic? Those prehistoric creatures who met their end around 65 million years ago are currently being memorialized online by dino-heads who mourn their mass extinction. Fans chop up animated footage of dinosaur hatchlings or long-necked herbivores in courtship (mostly taken from

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey so far. Very few in-flight issues have cropped up that could disrupt their peace of mind. Except, that is, for the toilet. The Artemis II crew’s 16.5-foot-wide (5-meter-wide) Orion capsule

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey so far. Very few in-flight issues have cropped up that could disrupt their peace of mind. Except, that is, for the toilet. The Artemis II crew’s 16.5-foot-wide (5-meter-wide) Orion capsule

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The four astronauts on the Artemis II mission currently hurtling through space have had a largely quiet journey so far. Very few in-flight issues have cropped up that could disrupt their peace of mind. Except, that is, for the toilet. The Artemis II crew’s 16.5-foot-wide (5-meter-wide) Orion capsule experienced

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Awe-inspiring new photos captured by the Artemis II astronauts showcase the moon and the interior of the Orion spacecraft, offering a glimpse into their lives in space as they close in on another historic milestone. One image highlighting the moon even captured a portion of the Orientale basin, which

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Goblet-shaped sea jelly relatives with miniature “arms.” A plump, legless creature resembling a sausage. Long, wormlike animals tipped with flat “holdfast” discs for anchoring to the seafloor. Newfound fossils from a site in southwestern China, preserved in exquisite detail, offer a peek at a time in Earth’s distant past

CNN By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission crossed a crucial and historic threshold Thursday when the Orion spacecraft ignited its engine and propelled four astronauts toward the moon, setting them on a days-long slingshot trip that will reach deeper into space than any human has traveled before.

By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, Elise Hammond, CNN (CNN) — The Artemis II mission is now headed back toward Earth, with four astronauts having soared around the far side of the moon on an unprecedented path that reached deeper into space than any human has traveled before. The journey — crewed by NASA’s Reid Wiseman,

By Jacopo Prisco, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA released the very first images taken by astronauts aboard the Artemis II Orion capsule as they are making their way to the moon. The stunning pictures were taken by mission commander Reid Wiseman using his Personal Computing Device — a tablet that includes a camera —

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 found off the coast of Denmark in what’s been called a “remarkable” discovery. Maritime archaeologists from the Danish Viking Ship Museum found the ship, which was sunk during

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 geography into a ferocious weapon with devastating global impacts. It also reveals a truth about the dangers of a fossil fuel-powered global energy system: It’s heavily reliant

CNN By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four astronauts are preparing to take off on the mission of a lifetime — circumnavigating the moon and returning humans to deep space for the first time in five decades as part of

CNN, NASA, BILL INGALLS, NASA/ Bill Ingalls By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four astronauts are preparing to take off on the mission of a lifetime — circumnavigating the moon and returning humans to deep space for the first time

By Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The countdown clock is officially rolling at Kennedy Space Center in Florida, where four astronauts are preparing to take off on the mission of a lifetime — circumnavigating the moon and returning humans to deep space for the first time in five decades as part of Artemis

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 at 10:11 p.m. ET Wednesday, according to Time and Date. Despite the moniker, the silvery orb appeared in its usual brilliant gray hue. The lunar event’s rosy name instead pays

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Several high-ranking Trump officials that make up the so-called “God Squad” voted on Tuesday to quash longstanding Endangered Species Act regulations in the Gulf of Mexico, exempting all oil and gas drilling. It’s an outcome environmentalists fear could spell doom for the critically endangered Rice’s whale, a species that

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — There is nothing more thrilling than seeing a spacecraft launch — especially on a journey to the moon. More than half a century after the last lunar mission during NASA’s Apollo program, humans are finally aiming to travel back to the vicinity of the moon on a mission called

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence guzzle huge amounts of energy but they also have another alarming impact, according to new research. They are creating “heat islands,” warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees Fahrenheit, and making life hotter for more than 340 million

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When marine biologist Shane Gero spotted a plume of blood spreading across the water where a group of sperm whales had gathered in the Caribbean, he feared the worst — injury to one of the whales, perhaps from a predator attack. But then he saw something unexpected and extraordinary

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 spacecraft for the first human moon mission in more than half a century represent a tapestry of historic milestones. The crew of the NASA-led Artemis II mission is set

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — A small amount of antimatter took to the road on Tuesday, representing the first time any quantity of the world’s most expensive, volatile and rare substance has been moved. The breakthrough opens the door to new possibilities for the study of the elusive material. Antimatter is the mirror image

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 ice has spread as far south as it will all year. It’s the North Pole’s sea ice maximum, except this year, it’s alarmingly low. There is

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 Netherlands, potentially solving the mystery of the hero’s final resting place more than three centuries after he died. The skeleton was found buried in a tomb in front of the

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The puzzle pieces of Earth’s rocky crust are slowly and steadily moving — a process known as plate tectonics. These dynamic movements helped to create the habitats and climate that fostered the emergence of life on our planet, but exactly when the geological process first emerged has been a

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 Tuesday an ambitious vision that includes revamped plans for a moon base. While the space agency has long had its sights set on creating a settlement on the moon for astronauts to

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration announced it will pay nearly $1 billion to French energy giant TotalEnergies in exchange for the company abandoning plans to build offshore wind farms in the Atlantic Ocean and instead pursue fossil fuel projects in the US. The current administration has thrown up roadblocks at every

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The tragic tale of Harold, the king who lost England to William the Conqueror in an infamous battle, still looms large in British popular culture. But that story may need a reset, according to new research. The Battle of Hastings in 1066 ended the short rule of Harold, the

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — For more than 30 years, the United Nations World Meteorological Organization has told us how terrible things are getting with global climate change. Their annual “State of the Climate” report is a compendium of climate change facts and figures collected throughout the previous 365 days. It’s an authoritative look

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Cambodia’s largely unexplored limestone caves stretch for thousands of miles, are home to countless undiscovered species and host unique ecosystems, with creatures found nowhere else on Earth. Now, a new survey of caves in the northwestern province of Battambang has uncovered a range of species that are new to

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A coalition of 40 Democratic states, cities and counties sued the Trump administration on Thursday, challenging the recent termination of a longstanding policy allowing the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate climate pollution. The lawsuit, and others like it, will kick off a years-long court saga that could wind up

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A fossilized skull and jawbones found in Niger belonged to a creature that had a large, bony crest atop its head and lived some 95 million years ago. Named Spinosaurus mirabilis, it is the first species of Spinosaurus to be identified in more than a century. The findings, which

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — As humans burn fossil fuels and pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, we are heating up the planet. But there is another alarming impact of this climate pollution: it may be changing the chemistry of our blood. When respiratory physiologist Alex Larcombe was approached by a colleague a few

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Rainbow trout is a prized catch for fisherman on the Northern Cheyenne reservation, in the high plains of southeastern Montana. “The men in my family like to go fishing; they cook them right there because it’s fresh,” said Charlene Alden, the tribe’s environmental protection director. But there is an

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Years before emails, internet banking, cloud servers and cryptocurrency wallets, two scientists devised a way to keep secrets perfectly safe and indecipherable to eavesdropping outsiders. Their 1984 work depended on the hidden, counterintuitive world of quantum physics, which governs the way the world works at the smallest, subatomic scale,

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Like tiny photobombers, cosmic anomalies resembling small, bright red points show up in almost every snapshot taken by the most powerful space telescope ever made. Astronomers now call them little red dots, or LRDs, but there is no agreement yet on what exactly they are. Since NASA’s James Webb

By Jack Bantock, CNN (CNN) — Time and time again, Hollywood has embraced an imminent apocalypse, as films like “2012” beamed the fictionalized end of the world onto the big screen. Fortunately, the scientific logic for many such movies has been, to put it lightly, creative. The planet’s crust did not suddenly shift 14 years

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA has finished a crucial risk assessment ahead of its upcoming lunar flyby mission, and during a news conference Thursday, the agency revealed a new target launch date and discussed how officials evaluated the dangers the mission’s four-person crew will face. The agency is now aiming to launch the

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — During California’s worst dry spell in the past 1,200 years, some populations of wildflowers defied the odds to survive the ordeal. Researchers say they now believe these flowers relied on a type of rapid genetic evolution — the first time such a phenomenon has been documented in the wild.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mosquitoes haven’t always had a taste for human blood — partly because the tiny yet dangerous insects have been around a lot longer than humans. Pinpointing when mosquitoes shifted their preference to human blood could provide a novel window into the spread of early human ancestors across the globe,

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A large space probe plummeted into Earth’s atmosphere early Wednesday — years earlier than expected. And while most of the spacecraft was expected to disintegrate in a flaming blaze during reentry, a few components could have survived, according to NASA. The odds that a piece of debris would cause

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The possibility that a huge space rock — once deemed the riskiest asteroid ever observed — could hit the moon now appears to be off the table. Discovered at the end of December 2024, asteroid 2024 YR4 at first seemed a serious threat to Earth, with scientists estimating as

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The federal regulatory agency tasked with keeping America’s nuclear power plants safe and running smoothly is set to make huge cuts to the amount of time its staffers spend on safety and emergency inspections, opening the door to more self-policing from the industry. As it embarks on a reorganization

By Ella Nilsen, Amy O’Kruk, Samuel Hart, CNN (CNN) — The current war in the Middle East has sent the price of oil spiking — and with it, US gas prices. Crude prices leapt over $100 per barrel on Monday. In the US, the average gas price was $3.48, up 50 cents since the US

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In 2022, a NASA spacecraft intentionally barreled into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos during a planetary defense test. The objective was to assess whether humanity could protect Earth from cosmic threats, such as space rocks. New observations now reveal that the planetary defense test was a success, altering the orbit

By Sam Peters, CNN (CNN) — Ancient European hunter-gatherers were far more advanced in their cooking methods than previously thought, a new study has found, combining ingredients in “remarkably selective” ways, with cuisines even varying by region. Researchers analyzed the burnt remains of food stuck to the side of pots, called “foodcrusts,” and found that

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists can now come face to face with an early human ancestor nicknamed Little Foot who lived 3.67 million years ago, thanks to digital reconstruction technology. Renowned paleoanthropologist Ronald Clarke identified four tiny bones in the University of the Witwatersrand’s museum collection and went on to discover Little Foot’s

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — There was a decisive winner to the Lower 48 states’ split screen winter — a battle between frigid cold in the East and record warmth in the West. Anyone in the East who shivered through this winter could be in for a shock at the outcome. In the end,

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Within 24 hours of the first US-Israeli strikes on Iran, ships in the region’s waters found their navigation systems had gone haywire, erroneously indicating that the vessels were at airports, a nuclear power plant and on Iranian land. The location confusion was a result of widespread jamming and spoofing

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Is the world getting hotter, faster? It’s a big question which has been puzzling and dividing scientists for years. A new paper says it has the answer, and it’s not good news. Global warming has accelerated “significantly” over the past 10 years, meaning the world may barrel through crucial

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from the image could help astronomers understand the origin of our solar system. The image is the

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal deadline came and went this week for oil companies to bid on around 1 million acres of drilling territory off Alaska’s Cook Inlet. No one did. “At this time, no bids have been received,” the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management said in a statement on its website.

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists are one step closer to understanding the origins of complex life on Earth after shedding new light on a mystery about our microbial ancestors. The key, they suspect, may lie in how simple microbes that lived billions of years ago adapted to the presence of oxygen. Humans, like

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Sea levels along the world’s coastlines are much higher than previously assumed, more than 3 feet in some regions, according to new research, raising alarms that the world is underestimating the extent of the threat and how quickly coastlines could disappear. Sea level rise is one of the most

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spotted a galaxy so faint, it’s almost invisible — a discovery that could help illuminate one of the most elusive substances in the universe. The researchers found Candidate Dark Galaxy-2, or CDG-2, using the Hubble Space Telescope, and they believe it’s made of at least 99.9% dark

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A total lunar eclipse is turning the moon a deep reddish-orange on Tuesday for sky-gazers in Asia, Australia, the Pacific Islands and the Americas. This event, often referred to as a blood moon, occurs when Earth moves directly between the sun and the moon, casting a shadow on the

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — In the waters off Singapore, a recently uncovered a shipwreck with a huge cargo of blue-and-white porcelain is shedding light on the storied Chinese craft produced during the turbulent era of the Mongol Empire. The roughly 650-year-old ship, which was likely sailing from China to Temasek, a historic settlement

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Friday announced an abrupt change to its pathway to getting astronauts back on the lunar surface, opting to add in an additional crewed test flight before attempting to land. Space agency officials said that “Artemis III” — the mission name that had previously been used to refer

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers will have the opportunity to see six planets in the sky on Saturday, weather permitting, according to NASA. This planetary parade occurs due to the alignment of the planets’ orbits around the sun, said Heidi Haviland, a planetary scientist at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2010 discovery that early humans and Neanderthals once encountered one another and had babies was a scientific bombshell that electrified the field of human origins. Now, geneticists at the University of Pennsylvania say they have a better understanding of the nature of those prehistoric hookups, suggesting the trysts

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Veteran NASA astronaut Mike Fincke has confirmed that he was the crew member who had a concerning “medical event” that led to an early exit from the International Space Station last month. Fincke and his fellow crewmates — NASA astronaut Zena Cardman, Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Symbols and markings carved into tools and figurines by Stone Age humans over 40,000 years ago could be an ancient precursor to writing, according to a new analysis. The marks, found on 260 artifacts from Germany, are very different from modern writing systems, but show the same level of

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A mother-and-daughter team of citizen scientists has identified the world’s largest known coral colony, found on the Great Barrier Reef off the coast of Australia. It spans about 111 meters (364 feet) – roughly the same length as a soccer pitch – and covers around 3,973 square meters (42,765

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Efforts to get NASA’s historic moon mission off the ground have stalled once again, as engineers navigate a new issue with the rocket set to propel four astronauts on an unprecedented path. The agency announced Saturday that it had detected a problem with flow of helium, a gas that’s

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Last week, the Trump administration delivered a catastrophic blow to US climate policy by repealing the longstanding scientific finding that planet-warming pollution poses a danger to humans. Getting to this point was one of the administration’s most audacious deregulatory goals. But it doesn’t represent a complete success — yet.

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is one of the solar system’s oddities. Now, researchers have unlocked key insights about this mysterious moon, including how it came to be. The answer may also shed light on the origin of Saturn’s beautiful rings. Shrouded in a thick haze, Titan is about half

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — In the depths of Scarisoara cave in Romania sits one of the world’s biggest underground glaciers, a monumental slab of ice the size of roughly 40 Olympic swimming pools that began to form around 13,000 years ago. Scientists studying ancient microbes once entombed in the cave’s ice say a

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When scientists with the National Center for Wildlife in Saudi Arabia were surveying caves in search of wildlife in 2022 and 2023, they came across something unexpected: seven naturally mummified cheetahs in five caves near the northern city of Arar. The remains were largely intact with well-preserved soft tissue

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that served as a “war machine” in an army sent to invade the Roman Republic. After discovering the ankle bone at the Colina de los Quemados archaeological site in

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The botched test flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — a protracted saga that kept two astronauts in space months longer than expected — was a debacle in league with US space shuttle disasters that cost crew members their lives, according to newly revealed findings from a NASA investigation about

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — If all had gone according to plan, four astronauts might have been returning just this week from a history-making, 10-day slingshot trip around the moon. Instead, NASA’s engineers have been grappling with the rocket and fuel meant to propel the mission, called Artemis II, troubleshooting an all-too-familiar problem. Just

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A “ring of fire” solar eclipse on Tuesday will mark the first eclipse of 2026, but only about 2% of the world’s population will get to see it, according to Time and Date. The event, also called an annular solar eclipse, occurs “when the moon passes directly between the

By Jacopo Prisco, Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — As he took his final steps before leaving the moon, Apollo 17 commander Gene Cernan had some poignant closing words: “We leave as we came, and, God willing, as we shall return, with peace and hope for all mankind.” It was December 14, 1972, and Cernan knew

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts arrived at the International Space Station on Saturday, bringing the orbiting laboratory back to full staff a month after a previous crew made an emergency exit due to a medical concern, leaving behind a skeleton crew. The mission, called Crew-12, lifted off at

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — An exoplanetary system about 116 light-years from Earth could flip the script on how planets form, according to researchers who discovered it using telescopes from NASA and the European Space Agency, or ESA. Four planets orbit LHS 1903 — a red dwarf star, the most common type of star

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration delivered a deadly blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules that revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate climate pollution. First issued in 2009, the endangerment finding determined that six greenhouse gases could be categorized as dangerous to human health under the

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When solar storms erupt from the sun and reach Earth, their intensity is measured against a historical benchmark: the Carrington Event. Now, a portrait of 19th century British solar astronomer Richard Carrington has been discovered — providing, at long last, an image of the man for whom the event

By Lily Hautau, CNN (CNN) — A chunky, squat creature that roamed Earth 307 million years ago is helping scientists understand how plant-eating animals first appeared on land. The newly described species is one of the earliest known tetrapods — or four-limbed animals — to show evidence of having a plant-based diet. The discovery, detailed

By Asuka Koda, CNN (CNN) — Team USA won silver in mixed doubles curling on Tuesday after reaching the event’s final for the first time during the Winter Olympics. In the semifinal against Italy on Monday, American curler Cory Thiesse made the winning shot that knocked the Italian team’s curling stone out of its place.

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Picture all of Earth’s oceans, which cover about 70% of the planet and are mostly made of hydrogen. Now multiply that by nine. That may be the amount of hydrogen in Earth’s core, possibly making it the planet’s largest hydrogen reservoir, researchers recently estimated. And nine hydrogen “oceans” is

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers in Turkey say they have unearthed archaeological evidence that the Romans used human feces in medical treatments. Although Roman texts described the practice, this is the first time that physical evidence has been documented, according to a study published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. Lead study

By Laura Paddison, Samuel Hart, CNN (CNN) — Jessie Diggins is an endurance athlete. The Olympic cross-country skier describes the intensity of suffering her sport can inflict as a “pain cave.” It doesn’t frighten her; she’s used to digging deep, she can control the pain. What does terrify her, however, is how rapidly her sport

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary tea parties, educating classrooms of teddies or running their own grocery stores. Now, a new study suggests that such make-believe play is not a uniquely human talent, but a skill that great apes also possess. The evidence for this comes from a

By Jackie Wattles, Hadas Gold, John Liu, CNN (CNN) — Elon Musk’s ambition to one day settle Mars appears to have taken a back seat to a rather nearer and more achievable goal – sending humans to live on the moon. In a statement on X on Sunday, the billionaire said his company SpaceX has

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — Recreating a piece of the universe in a bottle might sound like science fiction, but it’s exactly what Linda Losurdo did. Losurdo, a doctoral student in materials and plasma physics at the University of Sydney, used simple gases and electricity to recreate conditions usually found in the vicinity of

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When plant biologist Jing-Yi Lu was earning his bachelor’s degree in Taiwan, he began to take note of the local flora. He paid particular attention to the lipstick vines, which, in Taiwan, have short, tubelike flowers with a yellowish-green hue. However, in other parts of Asia, lipstick vines are

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — In an idyllic corner of an English field, beneath the lush green grass and yellow buttercups sprouting in the sunshine, archaeologists made a grim discovery. Sifting through the soil, they found a pit dating back around 1,200 years, filled with skeletons — some complete, some dismembered — that

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — There is nothing like the excitement of a rocket launch. I’ll never forget the feeling of being at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the highly anticipated liftoff of the uncrewed Artemis I mission in 2022. I had reported on space and science news for nearly a decade,

By Katie Hunt, Jackie Wattles, Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA is now targeting March for the earliest possible launch of its historic Artemis II lunar moon mission, which will send four astronauts into deep space for the first time since the Apollo program ended more than five decades ago. The decision came in the

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge on Monday dealt a fifth blow to the Trump administration’s attempts to kill the offshore wind farms under construction up and down the east coast. In December, Trump suspended all five offshore wind projects under construction in federal waters off the coast of New England, New

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crucial test of NASA’s towering Space Launch System rocket is underway — marking one of the final steps before the vehicle launches four astronauts into deep space for the first time since the Apollo program ended more than five decades ago. The mission could launch as soon as

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Electricity costs are climbing nearly everywhere in the United States. But, in recent months, the Trump administration has framed the problem as one impacting only blue states. While several blue states like California, Massachusetts and Hawaii do indeed have some of the highest electricity rates in the country, federal

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look to the sky this weekend for a chance to see February’s wintry full moon, which comes as four astronauts prepare to make a historic journey around the silvery orb. The full moon will peak at 5:09 p.m. ET Sunday, occurring near sunset and appearing fullest while low in

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin announced Friday that it is pausing flights aboard its suborbital space tourism rocket New Shepard. Since 2021, New Shepard has provided 10-minute flights to the edge of space for wealthy thrill seekers, celebrities and special guests. The company, founded by Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos, said in a