China’s Mars rover dormant likely due to dust
By Mengchen Zhang, Alex Stambaugh and Ashley Strickland, CNN China’s Zhurong rover on Mars has been in hibernation since last May due to an…
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By Mengchen Zhang, Alex Stambaugh and Ashley Strickland, CNN China’s Zhurong rover on Mars has been in hibernation since last May due to an…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Black holes have a reputation for snacking on stars, but some of these celestial garbage disposals may be messier than…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN A Japanese lunar lander, carrying a rover developed in the United Arab Emirates, attempted to find its footing on the…
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By Sana Noor Haq, Catherine Nicholls, Celine Alkhaldi and Magdy Samaan, CNN Safa Babikir was sleeping in her aunt’s house in Khartoum when she…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Dangerous, record-breaking heat waves are set to increase as the climate crisis intensifies, and they will be particularly…
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By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN The breathtaking dancing shimmer of the aurora borealis and its counterpart in the southern hemisphere,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When quakes rumbled on Mars and a meteorite smacked into the red planet during the past four years, NASA’s InSight…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The life cycle of plastic begins underground, where oil and gas are extracted from deep below the surface of the planet. These…
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By Martha Shade, CNN It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out — but don’t click…
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By Eyad Kourdi, Pierre Meilhan, Celina Tebor and Heather Chen, CNN Canada has told its citizens in Sudan that evacuations are “not possible at…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Rocket launches are like opening a box of chocolates, only riskier — you never know what you’re going to get. And…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN After the first test launch of a SpaceX Starship rocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed — ended in an…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN After no major annual meteor showers for months, the Lyrids are here to end the drought. Known as one of the oldest-recorded…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Droughts, floods and record low ice levels — from the top of the world’s mountains to the depths of the ocean, the…
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By Madeline Holcombe, CNN There is something in the air today. Maybe you’ve noticed. April 20, or 4/20, is known as “Weed Day” in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Northern elephant seals might be masters of multitasking in the animal kingdom because they’ve learned how to sleep…
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By Jack Guy, CNN The Earth’s ice sheets lost enough ice over the last 30 years to create an ice cube 12 miles high, according to new research.…
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By Jackie Wattles and Danya Gainor, CNN Since SpaceX’s inaugural test flight of the most powerful rocket ever constructed, the company’s…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN One Friday afternoon, not long after Oregon made cannabis legal in 2015, some lab researchers in the state embarked on a quirky…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX is once again gearing up for the inaugural test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever created and the…
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launchpad in South Texas…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business SpaceX’s Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, took off from a launch pad on the coast of South Texas…
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By Heather Chen, CNN A contest planned for children in New Zealand to hunt and kill feral cats as part of a drive to protect native species has been…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX is once again gearing up for the inaugural test flight of Starship, the most powerful rocket ever created and the…
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By Kate Golembiewski, CNN Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in bogs throughout eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers, often in…
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By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA satellite that observed solar flares and helped scientists understand the sun’s powerful bursts…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN A hybrid solar eclipse — the first of its kind in nearly 10 years — is on the way. During this rare celestial event, the…
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By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN Eleven Indonesian fishermen were rescued by Australian maritime authorities from a tiny island after being…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN The Vikings disappeared abruptly from Greenland in the mid-15th century, some 400 years after arriving there. Why they abandoned a…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A brilliant starburst feature shines in the latest image taken by the James Webb Space Telescope. The space observatory…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX is now targeting Thursday for the next attempt to get Starship, the most powerful rocket ever built, off the ground.…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The universe is filled with so many wonders that it’s easy to lose sight of the celestial treasures in our own cosmic…
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By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Scientists have found thriving communities of coastal creatures, including tiny crabs and anemones, living thousands of…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Just a few months after NASA introduced the world to the most powerful rocket ever flown to orbit, Elon Musk’s SpaceX is…
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By Duarte Mendonca, CNN Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Saturday that the United States should stop “encouraging”…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX has cleared the final regulatory hurdle standing before the inaugural launch of its Starship rocket — the most…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first photo ever taken of a black hole looks a little sharper now. Originally released in 2019, the unprecedented…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN It’s a bird… It’s a plane… It’s a paper airplane! The world record for the farthest flight by…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Ingenuity helicopter just achieved a huge milestone on Mars. The little chopper successfully completed its…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Ingenuity helicopter just achieved a huge milestone on Mars. The little chopper successfully completed its…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The European Space Agency has sent a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. The…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The European Space Agency has sent a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing moons. The…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The European Space Agency is about to send a spacecraft to explore Jupiter and three of its largest and most intriguing…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has spied colorful, never-before-seen details in one of the most well-observed remnants of…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Scientists have discovered direct evidence that people in Europe used psychoactive drugs during the Bronze Age, possibly as…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a new stunning image of ice giant Uranus, with almost all its faint dusty rings on…
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By Barbie Latza Nadeau, Allegra Goodwin and Sana Noor Haq, CNN The Italian Coast Guard is leading rescue efforts to save at least 400 migrants adrift…
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By Gabby Gretener, CNN Benjamin Ferencz, the last surviving prosecutor from the Nuremberg trials, has died aged 103. Ferencz fought in Europe during…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN I was briefly transfixed by April’s full moon as it peeped out of London’s clouds on Wednesday night — it was a…
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By Mariya Knight and Heather Chen, CNN Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky shared Iftar with Ukrainian Muslim soldiers observing Ramadan on…
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By Gerardo Lemos, CNN Search and rescue efforts are underway in Honduras after a ship carrying about 20 tourists sank, the Honduran Fire Department…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Eggs have been laid on land by birds, reptiles, dinosaurs and a few oddball mammals for more than 200 million years. And humans…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN I was briefly transfixed by April’s full moon as it peeped out of London’s clouds on Wednesday night — a reminder of…
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By Jacopo Prisco, CNN A geometry problem that has been puzzling scientists for 60 years has likely just been solved by an amateur mathematician with…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Every year scientists in New Zealand fly over some of the country’s most iconic glaciers — ancient ice…
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By Caolán Magee, CNN It was a winter’s night outside Victor’s Bar in Belfast, and the Irish Republican Army (IRA) had identified its…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, headquartered in Vienna, Austria. Facts The…
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By Taylor Nicioli and Ashley Strickland, CNN April’s full moon will not shine pink tonight, despite its name, but the bright golden orb could…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have detected a repeating radio signal from an exoplanet and the star that it orbits, both located 12…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN I was briefly transfixed by April’s full moon as it peeped out of London’s clouds on Wednesday night — it was a…
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By Caolán Magee, CNN Donald Trump may be the first former US president to face criminal charges, but around the world many current and former…
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By Caolán Magee, CNN Donald Trump may be the first former US president to face criminal charges, but around the world many current and former…
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By Mary Kay Mallonee and Helen Regan, CNN A US strike in Syria has killed a senior ISIS leader who planned attacks into Europe, United States Central…
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades were revealed on Monday, queuing…
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By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN Four astronauts — including three Americans and one Canadian — will be tapped by NASA to complete a…
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By Laura Paddison and Rachel Ramirez, CNN Scientists have watched in astonishment as ocean temperatures have steadily risen over the past several…
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronauts who will helm the first crewed moon mission in five decades were revealed on Monday, queuing…
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By Radina Gigova, Mariya Knight and Katharina Krebs, CNN A well-known Russian military blogger was killed in an explosion at a cafe in St. Petersburg…
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By Ray Sanchez, CNN On Palm Sunday, Christians throughout the world celebrate the day Jesus triumphantly entered Jerusalem days before his…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN As a child in the 1980s, I visited the Jorvik Viking Centre in York, England, to learn about the Scandinavian seafarers. The…
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By Laura Paddison and Rachel Ramirez, CNN Scientists have watched in astonishment as ocean temperatures have steadily risen over the past several…
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By Richard Roth, CNN A country led by an accused war criminal is now in charge of the United Nations Security Council. Hard as it is to believe,…
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By AJ Willingham, CNN Much divides us, but one thing that knows no cultural bounds is the human desire to pull some silly, goofy little tricks. April…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Researchers in New York developed a virtual reality maze for mice in an attempt to demystify a question that’s been…
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By Danya Gainor, CNN No matter what the James Webb Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope or our other tools of space exploration discover next,…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Plants make popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, according to recordings made in a new study — and they make…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Astronaut Frank Rubio traveled to the International Space Station on September 21, 2022, for what he thought would be a…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Plants make popping sounds that are undetectable to the human ear, according to recordings made in a new study — and they make…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The weather is slowly changing on Jupiter and Uranus, according to our galaxy’s own interplanetary meteorologist. The…
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By Hilary Whiteman, CNN Melting ice in the Antarctic is not just raising sea levels but slowing down the circulation of deep ocean water with vast…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday is poised to win a historic vote at the United Nations that would call on the…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Pacific Island nation of Vanuatu on Wednesday won a historic vote at the United Nations that calls on the world’s…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Night sky lovers can typically spot a smattering of a few planets, but in late March, a stunning visual takes shape when five…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Woolly mammoth remains, with fur and tissue still in tact, are regularly found entombed in Arctic permafrost. Their discovery has…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Woolly mammoth remains, with fur and tissue still in tact, are regularly found entombed in Arctic permafrost. Their discovery has…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Trillions of pounds of water may be strewn across the moon, trapped in tiny glass beads that could have formed when asteroids…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Deadly spores lurk in the water and infect the skin of the creatures they touch. Spreading on contact and then invading the…
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Story by Katie Hunt, design by Ian Berry, CNN Smells hover just below our conscious awareness, conjuring up emotions and memories that shape how we…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The idea of time travel has always fascinated me. Since I was a kid, I’ve imagined a “Jetsons”-like…
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By Bill Weir, CNN One hundred years ago, colorful canaries warned humans of the hidden hazards of digging for coal by riding shotgun down the mine…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Night sky lovers can typically spot a smattering of a few planets, but in late March, a stunning visual takes shape when five…
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By Gawon Bae, Emi Jozuka and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea launched two short-range ballistic missiles into the waters off the east coast of the…
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By CNN’s Barbie Latza Nadeau At least 28 migrants have died after their boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the…
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By CNN’s Barbie Latza Nadeau At least 28 migrants have died after their boats sank off the coast of Tunisia as they tried to cross the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Cities’ relationship with water is a fragile balance. Too little leads to parched landscapes and water shortages; too…
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By Heather Chen, Hira Humayun, Mariya Knight, Andrew Carey, Radina Gigova and Maria Kostenko, CNN Russia plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in…
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By Heather Chen, Hira Humayun, Mariya Knight, Andrew Carey, Radina Gigova and Maria Kostenko, CNN Russia plans to station tactical nuclear weapons in…
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By Alta Spells, Sara Weisfeldt and Zoe Sottile, CNN A suspect in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, who was killed in his bedroom…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN Each year, millions of people from over 190 countries and territories coordinate to turn off their lights for just one hour. The…
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By Amy Woodyatt, CNN On hearing the words “city killer” and “asteroid” in the same sentence, you’d be forgiven for…
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