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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…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For nearly two centuries, scientists have tried to solve an enduring mystery about a giant millipede-like…

Story by Reuters (CNN) — The mass bleaching of coral reefs around the world since February 2023 is now the most extensive on record, the…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The origin of modern humans’ long-standing love affair with carbs may predate our existence as a species,…

By Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — Clean energy executive Cary Kottler was one of millions who lost power and heat as winter storm Uri, as it was…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For the first time, scientists have found evidence that marine mammals could be inhaling microplastics,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Humanity has thrown the global water cycle off balance “for the first time in human history,” fueling a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Scientists have uncovered communities of animals such as tube worms and snails living in volcanic caves…

By Gina Park and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Keep your eyes along the horizon at dusk to witness a stunning lunar display rise this evening.…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have discovered a distant disc galaxy that has surprisingly similar characteristics to our own Milky Way,…

By Stephanie Elam, CNN Los Angeles (CNN) — Beautiful beaches. Majestic mountains. Hollywood. One more thing Southern California is known for:…

CNN By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A mission to study one of the solar system’s most promising environments that may be suitable for life has…

CNN By Alexandra Banner, CNN (CNN) — More than 100 cities across the US are celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day today. The alternative to…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX successfully launched the latest test flight of Starship Sunday morning, the most…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Federal regulators granted SpaceX its long-awaited license to move forward with a fifth uncrewed test launch of…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — William Fulford moved from Virginia Beach, Virginia, to a new waterfront development in Florida in 2023. Nestled…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The icy extremes of Earth have long beckoned explorers with the promise of discovering uncharted territory.…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — At the heart of the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, carved into pink sandstone cliffs, lies an elaborate monument…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most…