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CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of al Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri. Personal Birth date: June 19, 1951 Death date: July 31,…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The amount of money needed to aid communities in the face of extreme weather-related emergencies has increased by more than…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Just a couple of weeks after the Ingenuity helicopter celebrated a year of flying on Mars, things got quiet. For the first…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN Humans’ historical greenhouse gas emissions have caused the climate crisis the world is in today. But it’s the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A strange early relative of the giraffe was perfectly adapted for some serious headbutting 17 million years ago, according…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Some lucky night sky watchers caught a glimpse of a brand new meteor shower on Monday night, as Earth passed through the debris…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mega moon rocket is getting ready for its latest attempt at a final prelaunch test, according to an update…

By John Blake, CNN Sports, it’s been said, reveals character. It also reveals something else: philosophy. There’s no better example of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Ancient volcanic eruptions on the moon could provide an unexpected resource for future lunar explorers: water. Between 2…

By Paula Newton, CNN Toronto Police fatally shot a man who was seen carrying a firearm near three schools in the Scarborough area Thursday, police…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN More than 100 previously unknown Iron Age settlements have been found during a survey of the region north of…

By Meera Senthilingam, CNN Postpartum depression (PPD) is estimated to affect more than one in ten women who have a baby and is just one of many mood…

By Megan Marples, CNN For these tiny robotic crabs, being small is a virtue. Engineers at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, invented the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN This is the last time we’ll ever see a selfie from NASA’s InSight lander on Mars. And judging by the amount of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Fearsome predators like T. rex and towering, telescope-necked dinosaurs, such as Brachiosaurus, were warm-blooded creatures in the…

By Rob Picheta and Hafsa Khalil, CNN Vaccines, variants, natural immunity and better treatment options mean catching Covid-19 now isn’t the…

By Katie Hunt, CNN NASA’s Earth Observatory has released satellite images of an undersea volcano erupting. The image, taken on May 14 by the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Measuring the expansion rate of the universe was one of the Hubble Space Telescope’s main goals when it was launched…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Things are looking up for the greater one-horned rhino. The massive mammal, also called the Indian rhinoceros, saw its global…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Have you ever wondered whether, tens of thousands of years from now, you could end up in the fossil record? I confess I have.…

By Katie Hunt, CNN There is a lot to love about bees. They are crucial to growing many of our favorite and healthiest foods as they move pollen from…

Story by Reuters In a world beset by conflicts and natural disasters, the number of people who fled their homes and sought shelter within their own…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The unexpected discovery of “ghost” fossils belonging to tiny, ancient organisms could provide insights about…

By Katie Hunt, CNN In the Red Sea off the coast of Egypt, bottlenose dolphins were spotted in 2009 doing something unusual. They lined up to rub…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Voyager 1 probe is still exploring interstellar space 45 years after launching, but it has encountered an issue that…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Solar Orbiter mission’s first close pass of the sun in March has revealed our star in a new light. The…

Story by Reuters and Angela Dewan, CNN The world’s oceans in 2021 grew to their warmest and most acidic levels on record, while melting ice…

By Jessie Yeung and Rhea Mogul, CNN Pollution caused one in six deaths worldwide in 2019, a new study has revealed — more than the annual…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The NASA InSight lander, which has been revealing the mysterious interior of Mars since 2018, is coming to an end. Due to a…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the life of convicted terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui, who is serving a life sentence in prison without…

By Katie Hunt, Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN The moon glowed red on Sunday night and the early hours of Monday, after a total lunar…

By Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN May’s full moon, known as the flower moon, will blossom in the sky on Sunday night into Monday. The…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Whenever I travel, I always try to catch the sunrise. There is something about watching light spill over a new place, every…

By Megan Marples and Ashley Strickland, CNN May’s full moon will have stargazers seeing red. The moon will glow a scarlet color during this…

By Nima Elbagir, Barbara Arvanitidis, Gianluca Mezzofiore, Katie Polglase, Tamara Qiblawi, Alex Platt, Victoria Butenko, Darya Tarasova and Maria…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN In a landmark first, scientists have grown plants in lunar soil using samples collected during the Apollo missions to the…

CNN Editorial Research Here’s a look at the use of performance-enhancing drugs in sports. Facts “Doping” by professional athletes…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN China’s Zhurong rover has found evidence suggesting that water persisted on Mars for much longer than expected.…

By Katie Hunt, CNN A tiny fragment of the asteroid that hit Earth 66 million years ago may have been found encased in amber — a discovery NASA…

By Megan Marples, CNN An Asiatic cheetah has given birth to cubs at a facility in Iran, marking the first time the species reproduced in captivity,…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN This is the big one scientists have been anticipating. The NASA InSight lander just detected the biggest quake ever found…

By Hannah Ryan, CNN There’s now a 50:50 chance that the world will surpass a critical threshold of 1.5 degrees Celsius of global warming in the…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN They’re tiny, adorable and endangered: Six new species of miniature frog have been discovered in Mexico by researchers from…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN A fleece jacket worn and signed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky sold for £90,000, or around $111,000, at a fundraiser…

By Kristen Rogers, CNN If you’re a mother, you have probably experienced the mental “what if” game on repeat since you found out…

By Zoe Sottile, CNN Space researchers want to send a coded message to aliens, including illustrations of nude humans. The proposal, “A Beacon…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN As a kid, I wanted to be Indiana Jones — and I know I wasn’t alone in that wish. I would set out with a pail…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Millions of elusive black holes hide in plain sight across the Milky Way galaxy, only giving away their presence…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Hidden deep below the ice sheet that covers Antarctica, scientists have discovered a massive amount of water. The groundwater…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Artemis I mega moon rocket is gearing up for another attempt of its final prelaunch test in June, according to NASA…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The world’s smallest marine mammal is so critically endangered that there are only about 10 remaining in its sole…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Ancient humans ate copious quantities of oysters — shucking billions of shells over thousands of years in a way that did not…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Think of this as one very long last dance. Two galaxies located 60 million light-years from Earth have been in the process…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Not all plants wither when faced with harsh conditions. Extremophyte plants not only survive in dry, salty or cold places,…

By Hande Atay Alam and Radina Gigova, CNN Actress and activist Angelina Jolie paid a surprise visit to a boarding school and medical institution in…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Thousands of emperor penguins cluster on the ice of Atka Bay in Antarctica, mostly unaware that an interloper lives among…

By Jamiel Lynch, CNN The Premier of the British Virgin Islands and the territory’s ports director were arrested Thursday in Miami on charges…

By Madeline Holcombe, CNN Tucked between the Chilean coast and Patagonian mountains lives a small population of sheepdogs, which exists only in that…