Katy Perry and Gayle King are among 6 women headed to space aboard New Shepard
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission aboard its tourism rocket, expected to lift off this spring, will…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin’s next crewed flight mission aboard its tourism rocket, expected to lift off this spring, will…
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By the Associated Press MANDAN, North Dakota (AP) — An attorney for a Texas pipeline company said Wednesday at trial that he will prove various…
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By Mostafa Salem, CNN (CNN) — The historic Egyptian city of Alexandria — the birthplace of Cleopatra — is experiencing a “dramatic…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — More than half a billion years ago on a frigid, ice-covered Earth, glaciers stirred up ingredients for complex…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two robotic landers, one from the United States and the other from Japan, are currently in transit toward the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — His venture may seem far out, but asteroid mining CEO Matt Gialich has no illusions. The engineer cofounded the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — With its iconic rusty hue, Mars has long been called the red planet. Now, scientists may have discovered the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Asteroid 2024 YR4, deemed the riskiest asteroid on record last week, now has nearly a zero percent chance of…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has been sharing dazzling visuals of our celestial neighbor since it successfully…
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By Ella Nilsen and Amy O’Kruk, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump swept into office with a three-word energy policy: Drill baby drill. In…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Runes, the oldest form of writing in Scandinavia, are the result of what happened when one community met…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The world’s oldest dated rune stone, a landmark discovery revealed in 2023, is just one piece of a larger,…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Some House Democratic lawmakers are raising “deep alarm” over Department of Government Efficiency’s…
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By Ella Nilsen and Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration told US government scientists working on a vital global climate report…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Panama Canal is an extraordinary feat of engineering. This waterway, which slices 50 miles across the…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA confirmed Thursday that the space agency may have sidestepped the sweeping layoffs it was expected to…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Many types of birds — such as hummingbirds, peacocks and parrots — are vividly colorful, but…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, is now the riskiest asteroid ever detected. On Tuesday, NASA…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Large reserves of white hydrogen may exist within mountain ranges, according to a new study, raising hopes this…
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By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — A royal tomb belonging to an ancient Egyptian king has been unearthed, in what has been called a “remarkable”…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — If you think you have your egg-boiling technique down to a science, there is still a chance you haven’t…
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By Ella Nilsen and Rene Marsh, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials scrambled through the weekend amid a flood of criticism to claw back…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — One of Earth’s deepest mysteries lies beneath our feet: the planet’s inner core. Made of iron and nickel,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid, named 2024 YR4, has a 2.8% to 3.1% chance of hitting Earth in 2032, according…
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CNN By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National…
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By Rene Marsh and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Trump administration officials fired more than 300 staffers Thursday night at the National Nuclear…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Scientists in Europe have identified a previously unknown species of fungus that turns cave spiders into…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first…
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CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — the two astronauts who launched on Boeing Starliner’s first…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Blue Origin has announced plans to lay off about 10% of its workforce — or more than 1,000 employees —…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have spied a monster radio jet in the distant universe that’s twice the width of the Milky Way…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The remains of an ancient basilica that would have formed the heart of Roman London have been uncovered during…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — From a distance, the Ivanpah solar plant looks like a shimmering lake in the Mojave Desert. Up close, it’s a…
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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…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Sea turtles are renowned for their incredible migrations, traveling thousands of miles across vast oceans with…
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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…
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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…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA on Tuesday said it may bring home Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams — the two astronauts who launched on…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers with the European Space Agency’s Euclid mission have captured an unprecedented look at a rare…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Unprovoked attacks by sharks declined sharply in 2024, with 47 incidents logged worldwide, down 22 from the previous…
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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…
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By Brenda Goodman and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Scientists, faculty and staff at Emory University received an alarming email Saturday: An…
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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…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Scientists who just months ago confirmed that Earth’s inner core recently reversed its spin have a new…
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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…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The challenge of unearthing lost things and solving inscrutable puzzles is a driving force in the world of…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a Friday afternoon email to NASA staff, the agency’s acting chief asked employees to embrace the philosophy…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered asteroid that has captured the attention of the astronomy community now has a slightly…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The existence of the US Agency for International Development hangs in the balance. President Donald Trump is…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Seven years after SpaceX launched Elon Musk’s cherry red sports car into orbit around our sun, astronomers…
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By Ella Nilsen and Sean Lyngaas, CNN (CNN) — A representative from Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, was granted…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have made a leap forward in understanding the pattern and structure of turbulence — a natural…
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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…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If the near-Earth asteroid Bennu were to collide with Earth in the future, the space rock could cause…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Some great apes realize when a human partner doesn’t know something and are capable of communicating information to…
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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,…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Images from space reveal an enormous X-shaped building rising up from rocky terrain in southwestern China. This…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Sending a spacecraft to a near-Earth asteroid, gathering dust and rock from its surface, and returning the rare…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The Blue Ghost lunar lander has captured its first images of the moon from the spacecraft’s orbit around…
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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…
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By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Corals aren’t necessarily known for their fancy footwork — or even having feet. But scientists have observed…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Space agencies are keeping a close eye on a recently discovered asteroid that has a small chance of impacting…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who have been on an unexpectedly monthslong assignment after…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists investigating a roughly 5,000-year-old tomb in southwestern Spain say the women laid to rest there…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have detected organic compounds and minerals necessary for life in unprecedented samples…
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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.…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — In a post on the social media platform X, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk claimed Tuesday that the Biden Administration…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — New insights into bee movements and life cycles have been uncovered after researchers tracked the insects using tiny…
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN (CNN) — Seventy-eight years ago, scientists created a unique sort of timepiece — named the Doomsday Clock — as a…
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By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Momentarily pausing after eating some mealworms, an elusive shrew’s long snout pointed skywards, unaware of the…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A small space rock that lingered near Earth last year and was referred to as its temporary “mini-moon”…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of wildfires tear through southern Italy every year, fueled by scorching temperatures and the hot,…
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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…
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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…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Thousands of mysterious mounds on Mars preserve layers of evidence pointing to ancient water on the red…
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CNN By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Even before the Los Angeles fires, the Federal Emergency Management Agency was under assault on all fronts.…
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By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — As more than 60 square miles Los Angeles violently burned earlier this month, then-President Elect Donald Trump…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A cache of human-like fossils from China has perplexed scientists for decades, defying explanation or…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Mysterious fast radio bursts, or millisecond-long bright flashes of radio waves from space, have intrigued…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of unusual discs unearthed in Denmark are revealing clues into how a Stone Age population responded…
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By Rosa Rahimi, CNN (CNN) — The world’s largest iceberg is still on the move and there are fears that it could be headed north from…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN London (CNN) — The size of human beings has increased over the past century thanks to better health and nutrition — but…
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By Laura Paddison and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The streets of Beijing have changed dramatically within just a few years. The noisy, smelly…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — It was a simple, sunny afternoon on Canada’s Prince Edward Island as Joe Velaidum and his partner, Laura…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — If you are using your smartphone to navigate, your system just got a crucial update. Scientists have released…
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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…
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CNN By Priscilla Alvarez, CNN Washington (CNN) — President Donald Trump began his term by taking a series of sweeping immigration executive…
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By Ella Nilsen, Matt Egan and Chris Isidore, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump signed executive actions Monday and cemented his intent to…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Eric Mauchan’s Cape Cod-style house in Framingham, Massachusetts, does not have central air conditioning. So…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Landing on the moon is one of the most challenging things humanity has attempted. Perhaps that’s part of…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The first controlled clinical trial recorded in the modern age, carried out in 1747 to test treatments for…
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