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By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Anton van Helden, an expert on some of the world’s rarest whales, was sitting on the couch in July recovering from…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mineral trapped within a Martian meteorite that fell to Earth has revealed traces of water on Mars that…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An enduring mystique surrounds the Voyager 1 and 2 probes. Launched two weeks apart in 1977, the twin probes…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Fashion is fickle and styles come and go — even for orcas, apparently. In 1987, a group of killer whales off…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for NASA administrator — tech billionaire and spaceflight trailblazer Jared…

By Alex Rodway, CNN (CNN) — On one of his first trips to study wolves in Ethiopia in the late 1980s, biologist Claudio Sillero observed a…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Ancient ancestors of Native Americans, known as the Clovis people, mostly ate mammoths and other large animals…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Millions of tons of coal ash leftover from burning the planet’s dirtiest fossil fuel are sitting in ponds and…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Last year was the hottest on record, oceans boiled, glaciers melted at alarming rates, and it left scientists…

By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Artemis program, which aims to return astronauts to the moon this decade amid a…

By Amy Gunia and Hazel Pfeifer, CNN (CNN) — The patient is submerged in an ice bath as an anesthetic for its impending surgery. When sufficient…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Tiny artifacts unearthed at a Wyoming site where a mammoth was butchered 13,000 years ago are revealing intriguing…

By Rosa Rahimi, CNN London (CNN) — The dynamics between predator and prey are laid bare in a striking image of fish being attacked by sharks in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA engineers have successfully restored contact with Voyager 1 and the spacecraft is operating normally…

By Michelle Cohan, CNN (CNN) — For runners, footwear is one of the most important – and often most expensive – pieces of gear. Experts say…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a surprising new view of a long-studied galactic neighbor, the…

By Jack Bantock and Gisella Deputato, CNN (CNN) — Since the dawn of farming some 10,000 years ago, the health of agriculture has been…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An orca pod in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico has devised a cunning strategy to hunt and kill whale…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — More than 1.5 million years ago, two different species of ancient human crossed paths on a lakeshore, perhaps…

By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — In a world where the climate is increasingly hot and volatile, farmers are having trouble keeping their crops cool. A…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN New York (CNN) — Walking around the urban oasis that is Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, one wouldn’t expect to find…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles when…

CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The earliest dinosaurs were unremarkable, bit players on a supercontinent crowded with other ancient reptiles…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An odd little gourd called the squirting cucumber has an explosive reproductive strategy that has intrigued…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have discovered the residues of psychedelic drugs, bodily fluids and alcohol inside a…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station were forced to briefly lock down a segment of the orbiting…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Monday he will provide $7,500 electric vehicle rebates for his state if…

CNN By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Gazing out the window of a rocket at Earth’s glistening blue perimeter, Emily Calandrelli’s mind was likely…

By Ella Nilsen and Bill Weir, CNN BUCHANAN, New York (CNN) — The Indian Point nuclear power plant was an energy juggernaut for 50 years,…

By Lex Harvey, CNN (CNN) — Gazing out the window of a rocket at Earth’s glistening blue perimeter, Emily Calandrelli’s mind was likely far…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The world agreed to a new climate deal at COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, Saturday, with wealthy countries pledging…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Woolly mammoths, giant sloths and saber-toothed cats were a fact of life for early humans. But today’s…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The promise of starting life anew on Mars may appear alluring, even feasible, as the climate crisis intensifies and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have captured the first close-up image of a star beyond our galaxy, taken during a dramatic…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Each human is a finely tuned orchestra of more than 37 trillion cells. Mapping this little-known world is one of…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Biden administration is swimming against the current to get seven Western states to agree to divvy up the…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The tallest animal in the world is in trouble. Giraffe populations are declining at such an alarming rate —…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New images of the sun captured by the Solar Orbiter mission showcase the highest-resolution views of our…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Famously known for its extensive ring system, Saturn is one of four planets in our solar system that have the…

By Ella Nilsen and Hien An Ngo, CNN (CNN) — High above the sand dunes of China’s Kubuqi desert, nearly 200,000 solar panels have been…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The answers to the biggest questions in space science — what happens inside a black hole, how does a galaxy form…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Christmas tree farmers across the Northeast are looking decidedly less merry as they struggle to keep their…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A species of marine worm that scientists lost sight of for almost 70 years has finally resurfaced, thanks to…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — If you saw an enormous, deadly funnel-web spider sitting on her egg sac, your first instinct might be to run away.…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The moon has some new stories to tell. Scientists have published the first detailed analyses of the historic cache…

By Ella Nilsen and Renée Rigdon, CNN (CNN) — President Joe Biden’s climate law is on the chopping block as Republicans prepare to have full…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — November’s full moon, otherwise known as the beaver moon, shone bright in the sky on Friday as the last…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It’s more than 100 feet long, at least 300 years old and visible from space. The world’s largest coral has…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Global levels of planet-heating pollution from fossil fuels will hit record levels this year, according to new…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have discovered an unlikely new species within the ocean’s midnight zone: a glowing “mystery…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Lucy, a fossilized skeleton unearthed 50 years ago this month, transformed scientists’ understanding of human…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — An enormous, rancid-smelling, 52-foot sperm whale has lain beached on the shoreline of the Caspian Sea, the…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Environmental Protection Agency just finalized one of the Biden administration’s only outstanding climate…

By Helen Regan, Robert Shackelford and Yumi Asada, CNN (CNN) — Four separate storm systems are churning their way through the West Pacific…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have identified the site of an ancient battle in what is now Iraq by comparing historical accounts with…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When the Voyager 2 spacecraft became the first and only mission to fly by Uranus in 1986, it defined the way…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — If Earth’s astronomical observatories were to pick up a signal from outer space, it would require an…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — If you missed the chance to see fireballs of the Southern Taurids light up the sky last week, don’t worry. The…

By Angela Dewan and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — America’s allies and foes alike have spent the past five days speculating about what Donald…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When Mount Vesuvius erupted in AD 79, it wiped multiple Roman towns off the map — but it also froze them in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History have peered beneath the wrappings of ancient…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Millions of years ago, long-legged, big-beaked, meat-eating “terror birds” stalked the Americas. The…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Three of the astronauts who were unexpectedly hospitalized after returning from the International Space Station…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Ancient DNA has revealed surprises about the identities of some people who perished in the ancient Roman town…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — With a sickle across her neck and a padlock on her left big toe, the corpse of a young woman found in northern…

By Brandon Miller and Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — New data confirms 2024 will be the hottest year on record and the first calendar year to exceed…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have uncovered links between the precursor to the world’s oldest writing system and the…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A meteor shower known for blazing fireballs is set to peak on Monday night into early Tuesday and could present…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Mary Rose was a royal favorite when it first set sail as the flagship of King Henry VIII’s fleet in…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — For more than 1,000 years, dense forests in the Mexican state of Campeche concealed the region’s ancient…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — For many people, prime numbers have faded into the background since distant grade school days. However, for Luke…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Talented though they may be, monkeys will never type out the complete works of William Shakespeare, or even a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The 47-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft is back in touch with NASA — but not out of the woods — after a…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States is an elaborate display of wealth — an intricately…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Perseverance rover spotted a quick glimpse of a cosmic “googly eye” on Mars during a recent solar…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Well-preserved bones recovered from an English shipwreck are shedding light on what life was like for the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When a supernova was seen glittering in the night sky for six months in 1181, it was so bright that Chinese…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A comet nicknamed the “Halloween comet” disintegrated on Monday during its closest approach of the sun, and…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A shimmering ancient fossil unearthed in New York state looks like a piece of finely crafted jewelry, but it’s…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Louisiana students Ne’Kiya Jackson and Calcea Johnson wowed their teachers in 2022 when they discovered a new way…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Water was already up to his knees, but 22-year-old Kierwen Garlan’s first thought was how to help his…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The world’s trees are in critical danger, with a staggering number of tree species teetering on the brink of…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Greetings, earthlings! I’m Jackie Wattles, and I’m thrilled to be a new name bringing awe to your inbox.…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have connected the identity of skeletal remains found in a well at Norway’s Sverresborg castle…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Three NASA astronauts and one Russian cosmonaut were unexpectedly transferred to a medical facility in Florida…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — When dinosaurs roamed Earth, their surroundings looked very different than the world of today. But there were…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The two test pilots for the inaugural crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft — NASA’s Suni…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The powerful Euclid telescope has captured millions of stars and galaxies in a dazzling new mosaic — and it…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Lost for centuries, two cities lay buried, nearly 5 kilometers (3 miles) apart, underneath grassy pastures in the…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have scoured the depths of the ocean and outer space for microbes to help slow global warming. They’re…

By Issy Ronald, CNN London (CNN) — A hoard of Norman-era silver coins unearthed five years ago in southwestern England has become Britain’s…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A massive space rock, estimated to be the size of four Mount Everests, slammed into Earth more than 3 billion…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — The famous Halley’s comet is about halfway through its roughly 76-year orbit of the sun, having reached its…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mile and a half beneath the ocean’s surface, the seafloor seems nearly as alien as the surfaces of other…