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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using a giant network of sensors, still under construction at the bottom of the Mediterranean…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Ancient humans living in Europe may have scooped out the brains of their dead enemies and eaten them, a new study…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — In what’s been called a world first, consumers in the UK are now able to buy a pet treat made with lab-grown…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Tuesday said it may bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — the two astronauts who launched on…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers with the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission have captured an unprecedented look at a rare…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Unprovoked attacks by sharks declined sharply in 2024, with 47 incidents logged worldwide, down 22 from the previous…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Look up this week for February’s full snow moon and to catch the last glimpse of a visible parade of…

By Brenda Goodman and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Scientists, faculty and staff at Emory University received an alarming email Saturday: An…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — On the heels of the revelation that Boeing is planning to lay off as many as 400 workers from its Space Launch…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Swaths of the US may be grappling with frigid weather, but for the planet as a whole, heat records are being…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The challenge of unearthing lost things and solving inscrutable puzzles is a driving force in the world of…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a Friday afternoon email to NASA staff, the agency’s acting chief asked employees to embrace the philosophy…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention of the astronomy community now has a slightly…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The existence of the US Agency for International Development hangs in the balance. President Donald Trump is…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers…

By Ella Nilsen and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A representative from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was granted…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding the pattern and structure of turbulence — a natural…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scholars are decoding an ancient scroll that was one of hundreds charred to a crisp during the eruption of Mount…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Images from space reveal an enormous X-shaped building rising up from rocky terrain in southwestern China. This…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate…

By Hassan Tayir, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — China plans to send a flying robot to the far side of the moon next year to search for the frozen water…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The US Army Corps of Engineers opened two dams on Friday in Central California and let roughly 2.2 billion gallons…

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Eleven endangered male frogs that traveled 7,000 miles (11,000 kilometers) in a bid to save their species…

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The arrival of a baby swell shark at an aquarium in Louisiana has caused a wave of excitement, after the egg…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around…

By Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — There’s a saying that in a big city you are never more than six feet away from a rat. It’s…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have observed…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an unexpectedly monthslong assignment after…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists investigating a roughly 5,000-year-old tomb in southwestern Spain say the women laid to rest there…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — An amateur fossil hunter has uncovered a piece of animal vomit dating back 66 million years on a beach in Denmark.…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a post on the social media platform X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed Tuesday that the Biden Administration…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon”…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of wildfires tear through southern Italy every year, fueled by scorching temperatures and the hot,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The story of how humans evolved is a long and winding one — and it grows more complicated with each passing…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Just hours after his swearing-in this week, as a raft of executive orders was presented and signed at the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red…

CNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As more than 60 square miles Los Angeles violently burned earlier this month, then-President Elect Donald Trump…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — The size of human beings has increased over the past century thanks to better health and nutrition — but…

By Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The streets of Beijing have changed dramatically within just a few years. The noisy, smelly…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — It was a simple, sunny afternoon on Canada’s Prince Edward Island as Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Nic Arnzen can spot people who, like him, have lost their homes to the LA wildfires. “We have the same look in…

CNN By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump began his term by taking a series of sweeping immigration executive…

By Ella Nilsen, Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed executive actions Monday and cemented his intent to…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Eric Mauchan’s Cape Cod-style house in Framingham, Massachusetts, does not have central air conditioning. So…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Landing on the moon is one of the most challenging things humanity has attempted. Perhaps that’s part of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first controlled clinical trial recorded in the modern age, carried out in 1747 to test treatments for…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A startling discovery made public in July that metallic rocks were apparently producing oxygen on the Pacific…

CNN By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species after purchasing crustaceans from…

By Jackie Wattles and Kia Fatahi, CNN (CNN) — US regulators and government officials in Turks and Caicos are looking into reports of property…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, a location beyond Earth has been listed as vulnerable by the World Monuments Fund, an…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have newly identified a “supergiant” sea bug species after purchasing crustaceans from fishermen…

By Amarachi Orie and Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN (CNN) — Elite ancient Romans would treat their guests to relaxing thermal baths when they came to…

CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s colossal Starship launch system lifted off on its seventh uncrewed test…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s colossal Starship launch system lifted off on its seventh uncrewed test flight…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The age of de-extinction may soon be a reality. Advances in genetic engineering and synthetic biology are making…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial…

By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Pygmy seahorses, about the size of a fingernail, are some of the smallest vertebrates in the world. First discovered…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As the winds die down and firefighters seize control of the deadly infernos that have scorched more than 60 square…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company Amazon billionaire Jeff Bezos founded, notched one of the most substantial…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX has turned heads and tested boundaries with each test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket system…

By Angela Fritz, CNN (CNN) — The fires that have ravaged Los Angeles over the past week were larger and burned hotter than they would have in a…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday carrying a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blared toward space Wednesday carrying a pair of lunar landers on a journey to our…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The past few years have marked the advent of a new lunar space race, with a fleet of robotic spacecraft from…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Keep an eye on the sky Monday evening to see the wolf moon, the first full moon of the year. And some…

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — Environmental activists in the UK painted Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey on Monday with the…

By Jacopo Prisco and Evan John, CNN (CNN) — Japan’s population is the oldest in the world, with a third aged over 65, and one in 10 aged over…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin, the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, has called off a second attempt to launch its…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — One of the best ways to assemble the puzzle pieces of Earth’s past is hiding deep beneath its white polar…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Nearly a quarter century after Jeff Bezos founded Blue Origin, the rocket company is poised for its most…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An international research team has successfully drilled and retrieved a 9,186-foot-long (2,800-meter-long)…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For decades, astronomers have tried to determine how Pluto acquired its unusually large moon Charon, which is…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It’s official: 2024 was the hottest year on record, breaking the previous record set in 2023 and pushing the…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have unearthed nearly 200 dinosaur footprints, dating back 166 million years to the Middle Jurassic…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two new potential strategies for returning crucial samples from Mars to Earth by the 2030s are now on the…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — On Tuesday, Donald Trump Jr. landed in Greenland, the Arctic island his father, President-elect Donald Trump,…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Tahlequah, the mother orca denoted as J35 who captured hearts worldwide in 2018 by carrying her dead calf for 17…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden will declare two new national monuments in California on Tuesday in what will be one of his…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A group of potentially toxic “forever chemicals,” mostly coming from prescribed drugs, may be contaminating…