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By Ashley Strickland, CNN As we eye exploring other planets in our solar system, we can’t forget about our own. A number of missions in the works aim to seek out the potential for life on moons around Jupiter and Saturn. Perseverance continues to check out Mars years before humans plan to arrive, and Heinz

By Hannah Ryan and Max Foster, CNN Harry and Meghan, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, visited a military base Thursday where they met Afghan refugees who had made it to the United States. The couple spoke with women recently arrived at Task Force Liberty, on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, which is home to

By Angela Dewan, Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy and Ingrid Formanek, CNN India and Iran expressed fierce opposition to the inclusion of fossil fuels in any final agreement at the COP26 climate talks on Saturday, potentially thwarting what would have been a major breakthrough in the history of climate action at the 11th hour. In all

By Christina Zdanowicz, CNN A missionary held back tears after she received her Covid vaccine in late October. She had traveled about 7,500 miles to get to this fateful moment. Lorraine Charinda got her first shot of the vaccine on October 23 and her second on Wednesday. It was all thanks to a US church

This is the official new draft of the COP26 Glasgow Agreement that has been published on Friday. Read CNN’s analysis of the text here. Draft COP decision proposed by the President The Conference of the Parties, Noting decisions 1/CMP.16 and 1/CMA.3, Recognizing the role of multilateralism and the Convention, including its processes and principles, and

By Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy, Angela Dewan and Helen Regan, CNN Negotiations are expected to run through the night Friday at the COP26 climate summit, as stark divisions remain on several key issues. A second draft of a potential COP26 agreement was published Friday morning but there was clear opposition from many countries on language

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Perseverance rover took a well-deserved break in October during solar conjunction, but it’s back to investigating intriguing rocks in Jezero Crater on Mars. Solar conjunction — a period when the sun is between Earth and Mars — began on October 2, which halted NASA’s communications with the rover. This blackout

By Ivana Kottasová, Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy and Ella Nilsen, CNN With just over 24 hours before the COP26 climate summit comes to a close, it’s all hands on deck. A new version of the draft agreement text is expected to be published at some point Thursday night, but COP26 President Alok Sharma made it

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A near-Earth asteroid may be a fragment that once broke away from the moon. Named Kamo’oalewa, which derives from a Hawaiian creation chant that alludes to an offspring traveling on its own, the quasi-satellite was first discovered in 2016 by astronomers using the Pan-STARRS telescope in Hawaii. Pan-STARRS is short for

By Sherry Liang, CNN If you missed the peak of South Taurids last week, the North Taurid meteor shower will shine this Thursday and Friday, potentially producing a few of its signature fireballs. The Taurids bring slow and steady streams from September to December. The peaks aren’t as eventful and defined as some other meteor

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A newly discovered black hole has been hiding in a cluster containing thousands of stars in our neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy. The black hole is 160,000 light-years away from Earth, and it’s 11 times the mass of our sun. Astronomers found it by using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large

By Angela Dewan and Ivana Kottasová, CNN A group of 22 nations known at the Like-Minded Developing Countries (LMDC), which include China, India and Saudi Arabia, asked for the entire section on the mitigation of climate change to be removed from the draft COP26 text, in a sign of the enormous gaps that still remain

By Ivana Kottasová and Amy Cassidy, CNN A group of young climate activists delivered a sharp rebuke to delegates at the COP26 climate summit Thursday, demanding that a fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty be put in place and calling out global leaders for their continued closeness to the coal, oil and gas industries. The activists did

By Megan Marples, CNN A species of dinosaur has been discovered decades after its bones were unearthed, according to a new study. Scientists have named the ancient reptile Brighstoneus simmondsi, believed to be from the Lower Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago. The genus Brighstoneous was named after Brighstone, an English town close to

By Sherry Liang, CNN While you’re rummaging through cabinets and crevices trying to find your cat’s new favorite hiding spot, cats may be keeping mental tabs on you, too. A new study out of Japan found that a stationary cat can track its owner’s location using audio cues — specifically, the owner’s voice. Saho Takagi,

By Angela Dewan, Ivana Kottasová, Ingrid Formanek and Amy Cassidy, CNN UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson has called on leaders and delegates to just “get on and do it” as the COP26 climate talks appear to have stalled. A draft of a summit agreement was published on Wednesday by the COP26 presidency. It includes language

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The highly anticipated landing of the first woman and the first person of color on the moon will have to wait. Due to a delay caused by litigation with Blue Origin, as well as other factors — including the pandemic — the earliest return of NASA boots on the lunar surface

CNN’s Anusha Rathi, Mitchell McCluskey, and Sophia Saifi Malala Yousafzai, the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Pakistani activist, has gotten married, she announced on Instagram on Tuesday. “Today marks a precious day in my life. Asser and I tied the knot to be partners for life. We celebrated a small nikkah ceremony at home in Birmingham with

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The ripples created by massive cosmic collisions have reached Earth after traveling across the universe for billions of years. Scientists have detected the largest number of these gravitational waves since the cosmic events were first discovered in 2015, according to new research. Astronomers made 35 new detections of gravitational waves, or

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN Photos by Tyson Scott and AP’s Alberto Pezzali for CNN There’s a small desk right at the back of the largest room at the COP26 conference in Glasgow. It sits well behind the rows of seats reserved for world leaders and international organizations, right underneath a huge EXIT sign, behind observing

By Angela Dewan, Amy Cassidy, Ella Nilsen and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The second week of the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, has begun — and things are starting to heat up. Here’s what to know. What a ‘Glasgow Agreement’ might look like The UK’s COP26 presidency released something that is called, quite oddly, a

By Sherry Liang, CNN First came the billionaires, then the movie stars — now ketchup is making its mark on the space race. Heinz revealed its first “Marz Edition” ketchup with tomatoes produced on Earth in Mars-like conditions. A team of 14 astrobiologists worked for nine months at the Aldrin Space Institute at the Florida

By Angela Dewan, CNN More than 100 fossil fuel companies are understood to have sent 500 lobbyists to the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, Scotland, more than any single country at the summit, according to the environmental campaign group Global Witness. The group analyzed the UN’s provisional list of named corporate attendees and found at

By Angela Dewan, Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy and Ingrid Formanek, CNN Delegates from around the world hammered out a number of agreements in the first week of COP26, an international summit where global leaders are attempting to limit the climate crisis. There were a few breakthroughs, but some experts warn the deals may not meet

By Ashley Strickland, CNN I’ve always been a bit dazzled by the fact that, as humans, we truly are made of star stuff. This week, an element found in our teeth was detected for the first time in a galaxy 12 billion light-years away. That means during the early chaotic days of the universe, stars

By Angus Watson, CNN A man is missing after a reported shark attack at a beach in North Fremantle, Western Australia according to police and the state government. Police and surf rescue helicopters as well as water police and surf lifesaving personnel responded to reports of the “serious shark bite incident” at Port Beach around

By Mick Krever and Phil Black, CNN Video with Martin Bourke and Mark Baron, CNN Design by Henrik Pettersson, CNN In the spitting rain that is endemic to the Netherlands, Anneke van Lelieveld bundles up in her bright orange cardigan at her home on the New Merwede River, and turns to look out over the

By Sherry Liang, CNN An approximately 300 million-year-old fossil skeleton discovered at Canyonlands National Park in Utah could be the first of its kind, researchers say. The exact species and classification have yet to be determined, but the fossil is a tetrapod — meaning animal with four legs — and could be an early ancestor

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Vanessa Nakate was 21 when deadly floods inundated vast swaths of East Africa in 2018. She didn’t consider herself a climate activist at the time, but soon after that disaster she and her younger siblings and cousins decorated placards and started climate protests in her home city of Kampala, the capital

By Ivana Kottasová, Amy Cassidy, Ingrid Formanek and Angela Dewan, CNN It was energy day at the COP26 climate conference in Glasgow on Thursday — and some pretty big announcements were made on the end of coal and fossil fuel financing. Here’s what happened on the fourth day of the climate summit. COP26 pledges could

By Ashley Strickland, CNN For hundreds of thousands of years, the fossil of a small child has been hidden in the darkness of South Africa’s Rising Star cave. The skull, from a child that was 4 to 6 years old at the time of death, is the first known to belong to an ancient human

By Ashley Strickland, CNN We truly are made of star stuff, as astronomer Carl Sagan once said. For the first time, astronomers have detected an element found in our bodies in a galaxy that is more than 12 billion light-years away. The element, fluorine, can be found in our bones and teeth as fluoride. “We

By Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s quite a large to-do list. Over the next decade, scientists aim to unlock the secrets of the universe and identify Earth-like planets outside of our solar system to find other habitable worlds. Ultimately, this research could reveal if we truly are alone. These are the top priorities outlined in the

By Megan Marples, CNN A spectacle of light will shine Thursday evening as the South Taurid meteors shoot across the sky. The meteor shower peaks in the late hours of November 4 through the dawn of November 5, according to EarthSky. The exact peak of the shower is 1 a.m. ET, or 5 a.m. GMT,

By Pauline Lockwood and Rob Picheta, CNN Police in Western Australia have charged a 36-year-old man in relation to the disappearance of 4-year-old Cleo Smith, who went missing from a campsite on October 16 and was finally found this week after a highly publicized search. The man, who was identified by Australia’s public broadcaster as

By Ivana Kottasová, Ingrid Formanek, Angela Dewan and Rachel Ramirez, CNN The push to phase out fossil fuels is gaining momentum at the COP26 climate summit. Twenty countries have agreed to end financing for fossil fuel projects abroad in a deal announced Thursday. Several countries had already agreed to end international financing for coal, but this agreement

By Sonia Moghe, CNN A Manhattan federal judge said Britain’s Prince Andrew may face a trial date between September and December of 2022 in a civil case involving a woman who is suing him for allegedly sexually abusing her when she was a minor. US District Judge Lewis Kaplan said during a status conference Wednesday

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Atacama Desert in Chile has been used as a way to simulate alien environments, like Mars on Earth. Now, researchers believe it was the site of an ancient comet explosion intense enough to create giant slabs of silicate glass, according to a new study. The research published Tuesday in the

By Rob Picheta, CNN Prince Andrew faces a pre-trial conference in his sexual abuse case at a New York district court on Wednesday, as his legal team attempts to turn the tables on his accuser, Virginia Giuffre. Giuffre alleges that she was forced to perform sex acts with the royal — claims Andrew denies. His

By Ashley Strickland, CNN It’s the space taco party of your dreams. The International Space Station hosted a taco bash for astronauts on Friday as they celebrated the harvest of the first chile peppers grown in space. The crew finally had a chance to taste test the peppers after initially kicking off the plant experiment

By David Williams, CNN First responders in Alberta, Canada, made a daring rescue over the weekend after a BASE jumper slammed into a cliff face and was left dangling after his parachute got caught on a small bit of rock. The BASE jumper, who was not identified, suffered “multiple traumatic injuries” in Sunday’s accident, according

By Amy Woodyatt, CNN Dr. Aaron Beck, the pioneer of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), has died at the age of 100. CBT, which is used to treat depression, psychiatric problems and psychological disorders, is a psychological treatment that focuses on changing specific behaviors and thinking processes. Beck is credited with changing the field of mental

By Samantha Beech, Jake Kwon and Helen Regan, CNN The number of people who have died from Covid-19 around the world has surpassed five million, according to data held by the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) Coronavirus Resource Center. JHU’s global tally of deaths reached 5,000,425 at 4:50 a.m. ET on Monday. It reports that 197,116

By Angela Dewan, CNN International Climate Editor It was in the city of Glasgow that Scottish engineer James Watt improved the workings of the steam engine and, unwittingly, kicked off the Industrial Revolution. Never could he have imagined that humans would burn so much coal, oil and gas over the next two centuries that they

CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the life of Andrés Manuel López Obrador, president of Mexico. Personal Birth date: November 13, 1953 Birth place: Tepetitán, Mexico Birth name: Andrés Manuel López Obrador Father: Andrés López Ramón, a store owner Mother: Manuela Obrador González, a store owner Marriages: Beatriz Gutiérrez Müller (2006-present); Rocío Beltrán

By Katie Hunt, CNN Commercial genetic tests can unveil surprising details about your roots. My Chinese mother-in-law, born in Hong Kong, found out she was a quarter Irish. The test results even pinpointed the county from where her previously unknown Irish grandfather originated. Extracting ancient DNA is much harder than sending off a swab, but

By Sherry Liang, CNN Hermit crabs are finding their way into discarded tires in the ocean — and they can’t get out, a new study from Hirosaki University found. The concave interior of a car tire can trap hermit crabs that go there in search of food and shelter. The study refers to this phenomenon

These 10 people are making the world a better place and now, they have been named the Top 10 CNN Heroes of 2021. They were all nominated by you — our audience — and selected by CNN to each receive a $10,000 prize. And now you can vote on who you think should be named

By Helen Regan and Carlotta Dotto, CNN Graphics by Natalie Croker, Marco Chacon and Henrik Pettersson, CNN China and the United States are the world’s two biggest greenhouse gas emitters, so any attempt to address the climate crisis will need to involve deep emissions cuts from these two powerhouse nations. China’s emissions are more than