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By Jackie Wattles, CNN The hunt for planets that could harbor life may have just narrowed dramatically. Scientists had long hoped and theorized that…

By Katie Hunt, Ashley Strickland and Jackie Wattles, CNN Officials at NASA selected a team of 16 scientists and experts who will delve into the…

By Samantha Beech, CNN Author Salman Rushdie has lost his sight in one eye and one of his hands is “incapacitated” following a stabbing…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Neanderthal is an insult still lobbed about to suggest someone is dim-witted and out of touch. The more we learn about our Stone…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN If you have always suspected that you might just be a mosquito magnet, scientists now have evidence for you: Mosquitoes indeed…

By Scottie Andrew, CNN After just six weeks in office, Liz Truss announced Thursday she’d resign as Britain’s prime minister. Hers was a…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN One of nature’s most anticipated light shows is set to climax this week, as space debris and dust trails from the famous…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A World War II shipwreck is still leaking explosives and other toxic elements into the ocean floor of the North Sea more…

By Hafsa Khalil, CNN A giant sunfish believed to be the world’s heaviest bony fish has been discovered in the Azores archipelago, Portugal,…

By Mitchell McCluskey and Heather Chen, CNN Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has declared an immediate three-week lockdown in two high risk…

By Alaa Elassar, Artemis Moshtaghian and Jennifer Hauser, CNN At least four prisoners were killed and 61 injured after a fire at Evin prison in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Renowned explorer Robert Ballard has scoured the deep sea for decades in search of its mysteries. Fascinated by Jules…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN This Sunday, a spacecraft called Lucy will be in the sky — just without diamonds. NASA’s Lucy spacecraft will skirt…

By Kostan Nechyporenko, Josh Pennington and Heather Chen, CNN Ukrainian officials say Russian attacks have killed 11 civilians in the past day as the…

By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN A 71-year-old man was found dead in floodwaters in the backyard of his home in Rochester, Australia, on…

By Maija Ehlinger, Gul Tuysuz, Heather Chen and Eyad Kourdi, CNN An explosion inside a coal mine in northern Turkey has killed at least 40 people and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Double Asteroid Redirection Test successfully changed the trajectory of the asteroid Dimorphos when the NASA spacecraft…

By Hadas Gold and Abeer Salman, CNN An Israeli soldier has died following a shooting at a military checkpoint in East Jerusalem on Saturday, the…

By Gene Norman and Zoe Sottile, CNN Hurricane Julia made landfall in Nicaragua early Sunday as a Category 1 storm, the National Hurricane Center…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When astronauts venture aboard the International Space Station, they see a world without borders. They work together while…

By Christian Edwards, CNN The expression “so hungry I could eat a horse” might not be just a figure of speech — for the Burmese python,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The world may have a new supercontinent within 200 million to 300 million years as the Pacific Ocean shrinks and closes.…

By Rob Picheta, CNN Human rights groups from Russia and Ukraine — Memorial and the Center for Civil Liberties — have won the Nobel Peace…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN A SpaceX capsule carrying a multinational crew of astronauts linked up with the International Space Station on Thursday after…

By Christian Edwards, CNN Drought across the Northern Hemisphere this summer — which scorched soil, dried up rivers and triggered mass crop failure…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a crew of astronauts who hail from all over the world on a trip to the International Space Station…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs — and sent a monster…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN At first glance, a new image captured by a telescope in Chile looks like a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky,…

By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Lauren Kent, CNN As protesters took to the streets of Iran following the death in detention of Mahsa…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The DART mission made history this week when it successfully slammed into an asteroid — and we got to see it happen…

By Tricia Escobedo, CNN Oleksandr Urazov and his family escaped war-torn Ukraine, thanks to his childhood friend, Alex Velychko, who now lives in New…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The very first image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is revealing some of the oldest stars and galaxies in the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN History was made Monday night when NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft successfully slammed into the…

By Heather Chen, Junko Ogura and Jake Kwon and Uliana Pavlova CNN Japan is demanding a formal apology from Russia after Federal Security Service…

By Kristin Fisher, Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN Officials at NASA announced Monday that the space agency is rolling the massive Artemis…

By Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN Jupiter will make its closest approach to Earth in 59 years on Monday, September 26, according to NASA.…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Get ready to see an asteroid’s tiny moon for the first time. Then, watch as a spacecraft deliberately crashes into…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The NASA Double Asteroid Redirection Test aims to make history on Monday at 7:14 p.m. ET when it slams into Dimorphos, a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN On Monday, a NASA spacecraft will deliberately slam into an asteroid called Dimorphos. The Double Asteroid Redirection Test…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN More than 15 years after fast radio bursts were discovered, new research has both unraveled and deepened the mystery of the…