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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For many people, the term “mummy” usually brings to mind images of Egyptian sarcophagi. But the history…

CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Eta Aquariid meteor shower has reached its peak — and you’ll need to get up early to see this…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have been trying to determine the cosmic origins of the heaviest elements, like gold, for…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times…

By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Only days after the Trump administration dismissed authors of a congressionally mandated climate report, two of…

By Hannah Rabinowitz, Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states Thursday in an…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Stored in a church crypt in a remote Alpine village, a set of unusually well-preserved human remains has long been a…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Glimmering, deep-blue solar panels carpet rooftops in Pakistan’s largest cities and dot the perimeters of…

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are…

By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the next authoritative…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A batch of Amazon satellites hitched a ride to low-Earth orbit, marking the biggest stride yet in the tech…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An invisible molecular cloud that could shed light on how stars and planets form has been detected surprisingly…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork, but scant physical…

By Morgan Severson, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — A family of seven recently overstayed their welcome at a swanky, boutique hotel in Atlanta’s trendy…

By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The head of the US National Science Foundation, a $9 billion agency charged with advancing discoveries across…

By Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry –…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration canceled the lease for its top climate monitoring lab, located in New York City, as of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known…

By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which…

By Fred He and Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A massive, extinct reptile that once snacked on dinosaurs had a broad snout like an alligator’s, but it owed its…

By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration quietly released key climate change data last week that has historically been…

By Kameryn Griesser and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After months without a meteor shower, sky-gazers now have a reason to keep their chins…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When astronomers search for evidence of life beyond Earth, what signs are they seeking? Would clues be traced…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night…

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…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Seismologist Deborah Kilb was wading through California earthquake records from the past four decades when she…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers say they have uncovered evidence that early Earth was home to more hydrogen than previously thought,…

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here’s a look at the life of environmental activist Greta Thunberg. Personal Birth date: January 3, 2003 Birth…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A team of astronomers have detected what they call the most promising signs to date of a possible…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have captured the first confirmed footage of the elusive colossal squid in its natural environment…

CNN, SCHMIDT OCEAN INSTITUTE Jade Walker, CNN (CNN) — Even though I suffer from trypanophobia (an overwhelming fear of needles), I received the…

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…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Colorful auroras could be visible in areas of the United States on Wednesday evening due to a solar storm,…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Hatched in quiet streams and rivers, salmon undertake a perilous journey to reach the open ocean where they…

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,…

By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — Professor Suzannah Williams wishes she didn’t have to spend her days analyzing poop samples. It’s a dirty…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An intriguing object my husband and I saw during our honeymoon was the Robenhausen door at Switzerland’s…

By Kameryn Griesser and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sharp-eyed lunar lovers may notice April’s full moon looks smaller than usual this…

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…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration intends to eliminate the research arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists working in an ancient Mayan city have unearthed a mysterious 1,700-year-old altar whose bright…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — It’s a long-standing debate in paleontology: Were dinosaurs thriving when an asteroid hit Earth one fateful spring…

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…

CNN By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, made waves Wednesday by signaling his intention…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump’s pick to run NASA, Jared Isaacman, made waves Wednesday by signaling his intention to…

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…

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…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The centerpiece of President Donald Trump’s America-first economic agenda is reinvigorating the manufacturing…

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…

By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — As the world’s appetite for computers, smartphones and other electronic devices grows ever bigger, the other…

By Stephanie Elam, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Along some 70 miles of Southern California coastline, usually curious and playful sea lions are…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s…

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…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX is wrapping up the latest chapter in its commercial human spaceflight endeavors with the return of Fram2.…

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…

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…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex ancestors and their plant-eating dinosaur prey would have congregated to drink water from a lagoon…

By Barbie Latza Nadeau and Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — Two very rare, almost-life-sized statues have been discovered during the excavation of a…

By Kathleen Magramo, CNN (CNN) — Japanese cuisine wouldn’t be the same without miso — but astronauts wanting use the fermented soybean…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New hints from one of the most extensive surveys of the cosmos to date suggest that mysterious dark energy…

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…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX on Monday launched its latest mission for paying customers: This time, a Crew Dragon spacecraft is…

CNN By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two astronauts whose planned weeklong stay in low-Earth orbit unexpectedly turned into…

By Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two astronauts whose planned weeklong stay in low-Earth orbit unexpectedly turned into a…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A crew of four passengers — led by a cryptocurrency billionaire — is set to launch aboard a SpaceX capsule…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Like nostalgia-evoking songs, objects can help us feel like we’ve preserved a moment in time. After our…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Guyana’s destiny changed in 2015. US fossil fuel giant Exxon discovered nearly 11 billion barrels of oil in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The NASA Curiosity rover has detected the largest organic molecules found to date on Mars, opening a window…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Paleontologists have discovered a newly identified fish species in Australia so well-preserved that they could…

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…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — “It’s alive! IT’S ALIVE!” In the 1931 movie “Frankenstein,” Dr. Henry Frankenstein howling his…

By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — The UK climate activist group Just Stop Oil announced that it will end disruptive acts of protest, which…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Shortly after being sworn in as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin accused the previous…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Toxic dust on Mars would make a future mission to the red planet extremely hazardous for astronauts and require…

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…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Sharks have a reputation for being silent killers — the top ocean predators are stealthy hunters, but they…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — With distinctive two-fingered claws, the remains of a previously unknown species of dinosaur suggest it looked like…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A hoard of Iron Age artifacts discovered by a metal detectorist could alter our understanding of life in Britain…

By Ramishah Maruf, Brandon Miller, CNN Meteorologist (CNN) — An unsubstantiated conspiracy theory that claims the US government is controlling…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA has outlined how it will respond to President Donald Trump’s order that federal agencies eliminate…

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…

By Lauren Kent, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Deanne Criswell has spent years sounding the alarm about busier disaster seasons. Just days before the…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — One of the most closely watched astronaut missions of recent memory came to a dramatic close this week as…

By Julianna Bragg, CNN (CNN) — Around 34 million years ago, the ancestors of modern iguanas likely embarked on what may be the longest…

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…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Violent supernovas may have caused two of Earth’s largest mass extinctions that have never been completely…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have made the surprising discovery of oxygen and elements like heavy metals in the most distant…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — A North Dakota jury on Wednesday found Greenpeace liable for millions of dollars in damages to a giant pipeline…

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…

CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — NASA’s Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore — who gained international attention as…

By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — It has been a dramatic change of fortunes for the blobfish. Back in 2013, the gelatinous sea creature was…