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By Kameryn Griesser and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After months without a meteor shower, sky-gazers now have a reason to keep their chins…
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By Kameryn Griesser and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After months without a meteor shower, sky-gazers now have a reason to keep their chins…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When astronomers search for evidence of life beyond Earth, what signs are they seeking? Would clues be traced…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When a new comet appears in the sky, there is often excitement. But things don’t always end well for the…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers say they have uncovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought,…
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CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Personal Birth date: January 3, 2003 Birth…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have captured the first confirmed footage of the elusive colossal squid in its natural environment…
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CNN, SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Even though I suffer from trypanophobia (an overwhelming fear of needles), I received the…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — A federal judge ruled against the Trump administration in the case that alleged fraud in a Biden-era clean energy…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Colorful auroras could be visible in areas of the United States on Wednesday evening due to a solar storm,…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hatched in quiet streams and rivers, salmon undertake a perilous journey to reach the open ocean where they…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Using a speck of mouse brain matter the size of a grain of sand, scientists have created the first precise,…
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By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days analyzing poop samples. It’s a dirty…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An intriguing object my husband and I saw during our honeymoon was the Robenhausen door at Switzerland’s…
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By Kameryn Griesser and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sharp-eyed lunar lovers may notice April’s full moon looks smaller than usual this…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For over 400 years, sailors have reported a mysterious phenomenon in which the ocean appears to glow as far as…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration intends to eliminate the research arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A fossilized jawbone dredged up by a fishing net from the seafloor 15 ½ miles (25 kilometers) off the coast of…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, made waves Wednesday by signaling his intention…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, made waves Wednesday by signaling his intention to…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new documentary reveals the incredible results of a project to create 3D underwater scans of the doomed ocean liner…
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CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A species of wolf that died out some 12,500 years ago lives again as the “world’s first successfully…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other…
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By Stephanie Elam, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A newly uncovered ancient Egyptian tomb is shedding light on royalty that once ruled the region over 3,600 years…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX is wrapping up the latest chapter in its commercial human spaceflight endeavors with the return of Fram2.…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Today, the view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya is of endless sandy dunes and barren rock, but…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a…
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By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Japanese cuisine wouldn’t be the same without miso — but astronauts wanting use the fermented soybean…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Stone tools unearthed in southwest China helped a mysterious group eke out a living in a cold and harsh environment…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX on Monday launched its latest mission for paying customers: This time, a Crew Dragon spacecraft is…
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CNN By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two astronauts whose planned weeklong stay in low-Earth orbit unexpectedly turned into…
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By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two astronauts whose planned weeklong stay in low-Earth orbit unexpectedly turned into a…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of four passengers — led by a cryptocurrency billionaire — is set to launch aboard a SpaceX capsule…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Like nostalgia-evoking songs, objects can help us feel like we’ve preserved a moment in time. After our…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The NASA Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules found to date on Mars, opening a window…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A partial solar eclipse on Saturday will make it look as though the moon has taken a bite out of the sun over…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “It’s alive! IT’S ALIVE!” In the 1931 movie “Frankenstein,” Dr. Henry Frankenstein howling his…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The UK climate activist group Just Stop Oil announced that it will end disruptive acts of protest, which…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after being sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin accused the previous…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Imagine the planet tens of millions of years from now. Homo sapiens as a species is likely long gone, wiped out by a…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Sharks have a reputation for being silent killers — the top ocean predators are stealthy hunters, but they…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain…
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By Ramishah Maruf, Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — An unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that claims the US government is controlling…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA has outlined how it will respond to President Donald Trump’s order that federal agencies eliminate…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The number of people stung by red fire ants in Australia has increased significantly in past weeks, with 23 people…
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By Lauren Kent, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Deanne Criswell has spent years sounding the alarm about busier disaster seasons. Just days before the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — One of the most closely watched astronaut missions of recent memory came to a dramatic close this week as…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Around 34 million years ago, the ancestors of modern iguanas likely embarked on what may be the longest…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A remarkable Early Jurassic record has been hiding in plain sight for 20 years on a slab of rock displayed at a…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for millions of dollars in damages to a giant pipeline…
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN (CNN) — A report considered the world’s most trusted source of climate updates has laid out the parlous state of a…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as…
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as their…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It has been a dramatic change of fortunes for the blobfish. Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A high stakes $300 million lawsuit brought by a giant pipeline company against the environmental group…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Firefly Aerospace, the Texas-based company that conducted a pristine moon landing with its Blue Ghost spacecraft…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After decades of searching, astronomers have uncovered some of the strongest evidence yet of exoplanets…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — While parts of the Earth experienced a total lunar eclipse early Friday, a spacecraft on the moon captured the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of astronauts who will take over duties on the International Space Station from NASA’s Suni Williams…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Over the past decade, scientists have detected a puzzling phenomenon: radio pulses coming from within our…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s first month in office has worried federal and state officials alike tasked with…
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CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Trees depicted in famous artworks across a range of styles follow the same mathematical rules as their real-life…
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CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sky-gazers across the Western Hemisphere will be in for a celestial treat this week when the full moon…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Male blue-lined octopuses inject a powerful neurotoxin into the hearts of females before mating to avoid being eaten,…
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CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped with harpoon-like teeth are among…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of international astronauts slated to launch to the International Space Station on a mission that…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of international astronauts slated to launch to the International Space Station on a mission that will…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration announced its intent to roll back major climate policies Wednesday, including rules that…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The story of human evolution in Europe has a new character. Fossilized bone fragments unearthed in a cave in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — It’s a two-for-one cosmic deal. NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A guitar-shaped shark, a fan-like coral and a venomous deep-sea snail equipped with harpoon-like teeth are among 866…
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By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Paleobiologist Dr. Kenshu Shimada has been fascinated by fossil sharks, including the giant Otodus megalodon,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s two-for-one launch of its newest space telescope, SPHEREx — designed to seek out the key…
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By Ella Nilsen and Katelyn Polantz, CNN (CNN) — The environmental group targeted by the Justice Department over a federal grant is suing a bank…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s newest space telescope, SPHEREx, designed to seek out the key ingredients for life in the Milky Way,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Each time a robotic explorer launches from Earth, it faces innumerable challenges — any of which could cut…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists say they have the first recorded video evidence of narwhals using tusks not only to strike and manipulate…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Intuitive Machines, the Houston-based company that was set to deliver a historic water-hunting mission to the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A striking new visualization made by climate scientist Zeke Hausfather unfurls like a flower blooming in the…
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