Scientists uncover what accelerated an interstellar comet through our solar system
By Ashley Strickland, CNN In 2017, ‘Oumuamua became the first observed interstellar object to zip through our solar system, and its appearance…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN In 2017, ‘Oumuamua became the first observed interstellar object to zip through our solar system, and its appearance…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN For centuries, a setting sun has signaled the end of fasting rituals on holidays such as Ramadan and Yom Kippur, a cue to tuck…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has detected churning clouds of dust on a distant planet that orbits two stars. Known as…
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By Kristen Rogers, CNN A new and large species of spider has been found living in Queensland, Australia, and researchers say it’s in need of…
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN The world is facing a looming global water crisis that threatens to “spiral out of control” as increased demand for…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Video by Channon Hodge, CNN Researchers have been pushing the limits of 3D printing for decades, using the manufacturing…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Organic molecules have been detected in samples collected by Japan’s Hayabusa2 mission from the near-Earth asteroid…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN An unusual animal with canine teeth similar to those of a saber-toothed cat and the wide-set eyes of a cow lived in South…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Telescopes around the world were watching when a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid in September 2022.…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Video by Channon Hodge, CNN Researchers have been pushing the limits of 3D printing for decades, using the manufacturing…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN After more than 50 years of quiet, the moon is about to become a destination for space travelers again. The public will…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN The world is rapidly approaching catastrophic levels of heating with international climate goals set to slip out of reach…
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By Dalal Mawad, Oliver Briscoe, Chris Liakos and Jack Guy, CNN Two no-confidence votes against French President Emmanuel Macron’s government…
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By Heather Chen, CNN Millions of dead fish have washed up in a river near a small Australian town, in a phenomenon state officials say is related to…
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By Heather Chen, CNN Millions of dead fish have washed up in a river near a small Australian town, in a phenomenon state officials say is related to…
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By Nick Paton Walsh and Allegra Goodwin, CNN British and German fighter jets intercepted a Russian aircraft flying close to Estonian airspace Friday,…
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By Yusuf Gezer, Amy Cassidy and Jack Guy, CNN Turkey’s president says his government will begin ratifying Finland’s bid to become a NATO…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The remains of a glacier have been found near the Martian equator, suggesting that some form of water could still exist in…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the International Atomic Energy Agency and nuclear power. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When scientists recently took a closer look at archival images of the surface of Venus, they discovered something new:…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The bottled water industry is a juggernaut. More than 1 million bottles of water are sold every minute around the world and…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has spotted a rare and tumultuous sight 15,000 light-years away from Earth. The space…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN A plant-eating sauropod that lumbered around what’s now China some 162 million years ago had a neck that was about 10 feet…
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By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA and Texas-based company Axiom Space have revealed a new spacesuit design — and it could be these…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Only 13 of the world’s countries and territories had “healthy” air quality last year, according to a new…
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By Michelle Lou, Saeed Ahmed and Katia Hetter, CNN If you’ve been using Pi Day as an excuse to just eat pie, that’s just peachy (or apple…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it’s definitely under way. Restrictions on their use are in…
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By Rachel Ramirez, CNN From lengthy droughts to severe flooding, the intensity of water-related disasters around the world has increased over the…
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By Gawon Bae, Yoonjung Seo and Brad Lendon, CNN North Korea launched two missiles from a submarine in the waters of the Sea of Japan Sunday morning…
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By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN Iran has arrested more than 100 people “in connection with” the suspected poisoning of hundreds…
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By Mohammed Tawfeeq and Heather Chen, CNN Iran has arrested more than 100 people “in connection with” the suspected poisoning of hundreds…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN The four astronauts who make up the Crew-5 team aboard the International Space Station returned home from a five-month stay in…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists met this week in London at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing to discuss advances in the field —…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Scientists met this week in London at the Third International Summit on Human Genome Editing to discuss advances in the field —…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Scientists have set out a way to suck planet-heating carbon pollution from the air, turn it into sodium bicarbonate and store…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Booty-shaking worker bees guide their fellow workers to pollen by a form of communication known as “waggle…
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By Jackie Wattles and Kristin Fisher, CNN A newly discovered asteroid roughly the size of an Olympic swimming pool has a “small chance”…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Curiosity rover just sent back a stunning postcard capturing its view of a shimmering sunset on Mars. The NASA rover…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A nearby star system is helping astronomers unravel the mystery of how water appeared in our solar system billions of years…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Warmer temperatures in the Arctic are thawing the region’s permafrost — a frozen layer of soil beneath the ground — and…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN The world’s oceans are polluted by a “plastic smog” made up of an estimated 171 trillion plastic particles…
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By Harmeet Kaur, CNN Millions of people in India and around the world celebrating Holi this week. The Hindu festival of love, color and spring is one…
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By Paula Newton, CNN Amid recent allegations that China attempted to meddle in Canada’s 2019 and 2021 elections, Canadian Prime Minister Justin…
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By Kristen Rogers and Ashley Strickland, CNN The final full moon of winter will light up the sky this week, and it coincides with another special…
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By Tara Subramaniam, CNN Progress toward gender equality is “vanishing before our eyes,” United Nations Secretary General António…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The human brain is unrivaled in its capacity to process information. Sure, we have days where our minds don’t feel as…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Nearly 200 countries have agreed to a legally-binding “high seas treaty” to protect marine life in international…
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By Zachary Cohen, Aaron Pellish, Chloe Liu and Heather Chen, CNN The US is working with Ukrainian pilots in the United States to determine how long…
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By Xiaofei Xu and Kareem El Damanhoury, CNN Several sub-Saharan countries, including Ivory Coast, Mali, Guinea and Gabon, are helping their citizens…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN After enlisting the public’s help to find Elvis Francois, a sailor who survived weeks lost at sea off of ketchup and…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN An insect found on the side of a Fayetteville, Arkansas, big-box store has been identified as the species Polystoechotes…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN New Yorkers’ beloved owl, Flaco, escaped from his Central Park Zoo enclosure a month ago. After eluding various rescue…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN New Yorkers’ beloved owl, Flaco, escaped from his Central Park Zoo enclosure a month ago. After eluding various rescue…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN It’s not every day that effective fungus-killing compounds are discovered, so researchers in Germany knew their recent…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN A crew of astronauts aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule docked at the International Space Station, concluding a one-day trip…
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By Jack Guy, CNN The world’s most northerly forests could be a “time bomb” of planet-warming pollution as expanding wildfires have…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Scientists are puzzling over a strange feeding technique that they think whales recently began using: The creatures swim to…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When researchers found a hummingbird with shiny gold feathers on its throat in Peru’s Cordillera Azul National Park,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new telescope image has shed light on the ghostly remains of the first recorded supernova. More than 1,800 years ago, in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Computers powered by human brain cells may sound like science fiction, but a team of researchers in the United States…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a fresh crew of astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, kicking off a roughly…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a fresh crew of astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, kicking off a roughly…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a NASA spacecraft intentionally crashed into an asteroid on September 26, the collision caused the space rock to…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN The breathtaking dancing shimmer of the aurora borealis and its counterpart in the southern hemisphere, aurora australis, dazzles…
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By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN Jupiter and Venus will appear very close together in the night sky on Wednesday, with the two planets set to…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN While global car sales might have fallen in 2022, one type of car, with an especially large climate footprint, had a great…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Scientists have long believed our planet is built upon four layers of rocks, minerals and magma deposited over millions of…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA have called off an astronaut launch to the International Space Station after an issue with the rocket’s…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Duncan Enright never imagined he’d get death threats over a plan to reduce grinding city traffic. But it is exactly what…
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By Zoe Sottile, CNN The sailor who spent weeks lost at sea in January, surviving largely off of ketchup, could have a new, state-of-the-art boat…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have found an unusually large planet orbiting a small star, located about 280 light-years from Earth. The…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Russia launched a Soyuz spacecraft to replace a capsule that sprang a coolant leak in December, leaving two cosmonauts and one…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN Archaeologists digging in a cave in southern France say they have unearthed the earliest evidence of bow and arrow use outside…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN A tough, bell-shaped fungus that grows on the rotting bark of trees has been used as a fire starter for centuries, earning it…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN When archaeologists uncovered the burial site of two brothers who lived during the 15th century BC in Israel, they were…
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By Francisco Guzman and Pete Burn, CNN Are you ready to give up caffeine for 40 days? What about your social media accounts? While giving up those…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer back in time to the early days of the universe — and they…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Scientists have long wondered what lies at the very center of the Earth, and the latest research is putting weight behind a…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Finding potential evidence of life on Mars may be more difficult than expected, according to new research. Missions such as…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN While global car sales might have fallen in 2022, one type of car, with an especially large climate footprint, had a great…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Antarctic sea ice has reached record low levels for the second time in two years, with some scientists alarmed that dramatic…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The mysterious red streaks crisscrossing the surface of Jupiter’s moon Europa may be the result of a newly discovered…
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By Claudia Dominguez and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Twelve cheetahs have arrived in India as part of efforts to revive the species after decades of extinction…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN I’ll never forget reading “Treasure Island” as a kid. Robert Louis Stevenson’s novel made me want…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN A nearly 2,000-year-old wooden object in the shape of a penis could have served as a sexual tool by ancient Romans in Britain,…
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By Yoonjung Seo, Junko Ogura and Emma Tucker, CNN North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula…
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By Yoonjung Seo, Junko Ogura and Emma Tucker, CNN North Korea launched two ballistic missiles into waters off the east coast of the Korean Peninsula…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope to peer inside the heart of spiral galaxies, where young stars carve…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Dangerous climate feedback loops are increasing global warming and risk causing a permanent shift away from the Earth’s…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN In 1660, a ship carrying a treasure trove of luxury goods sank off the coast of Texel, the largest island in the North Sea.…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A trio of telescopes captured a new view of the sun that reveals the star’s invisible light. Humans can see optical…
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CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at famine, a severe and prolonged hunger in a significant portion of a region or country’s population…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN A giant carnivorous dinosaur likely rested or crouched down in Yorkshire 166 million years ago, deeply pressing its feet…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope just peered into a celestial Pandora’s box to see what lies beyond a megacluster of…
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By Taylor Nicioli, CNN With the thick vegetation of the northern Guatemala rainforests hiding its 2,000-year-old remnants, the full extent of the…
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By Sana Noor Haq, CNN Iman’s ex-fiancé first referenced social media influencer Andrew Tate in their relationship in October. Three months…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN Antarctica’s “Doomsday Glacier” — nicknamed because its collapse could drive catastrophic sea level…
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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at Robert Levinson, who went missing in Iran in 2007. Personal Birth date: March 10, 1948 Birth place:…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN Officials at Russia’s space agency, Roscosmos, have opted to delay the launch of a spacecraft meant to replace one…
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By Kate Golembiewski, CNN Most people learn about “the birds and the bees” when they’re young, but sex in the animal kingdom is not…
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