Spectacular images of nature’s wonders revealed in photo competition
By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Two long-horned bees balancing on a flower, a fossilized dinosaur bone viewed through a microscope and a…
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Spacecraft successfully slingshots around Earth and the moon in a historic first on its way to Jupiter
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The European Space Agency’s Juice mission made two historic firsts this week on its long journey to study…
Continue ReadingSpaceX is about to send four people on a wild — and risky — mission into the radiation belts. Here’s what to know
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — When billionaire Jared Isaacman self-funded a mission to orbit Earth in 2021, the project was billed as a…
Continue ReadingWhen and how to see the rare super blue moon
By Riane Lumer, CNN (CNN) — August continues to be an exciting month for sky-gazers. Closely following the peak of the Perseid meteor shower…
Continue ReadingEVs are starting to overtake gas-powered cars in a surprising place
By Ella Nilsen and Nimi Princewill, CNN (CNN) — Long lines have been forming at gas stations in Ethiopia’s capital, Addis Ababa, amid fuel…
Continue ReadingNeolithic people moved Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone over hundreds of miles
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When archaeologists sift through layers of dirt to tell stories of the past, sometimes their discoveries…
Continue ReadingHe stumbled onto a large tusk in a Mississippi creek. It turned out to be a first-of-its-kind discovery
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Amateur fossil hunter Eddie Templeton usually knows when he’s onto something. Having scoured creek banks in…
Continue ReadingArchaeologists unearth tiny 3,500-year-old clay tablet following an earthquake
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have uncovered a tiny 3,500-year-old tablet inscribed with cuneiform writing during…
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Wreck of torpedoed World War I warship found in ‘amazing’ condition
By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For more than 100 years, the otherworldly wreck of a British warship sat lost on the seabed, covered in barnacles…
Continue ReadingDinosaur-killing asteroid was likely a giant mudball, study says
By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — Sixty-six million years ago, the story of life on Earth took a dramatic turn when an asteroid collided with…
Continue ReadingAmericans have saved billions with a law they know next to nothing about
By Ella Nilsen and Rachel Wilson, CNN (CNN) — Two years after President Joe Biden’s landmark climate law was signed, millions of Americans…
Continue ReadingPhotos from space show just how close Greece wildfires got to burning whole towns
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Greece’s worst wildfire of the year has ripped through the Attica region toward the capital Athens at…
Continue ReadingJohannes Kepler thought he sketched Mercury orbiting across the sun. What he actually captured has solved a solar mystery
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — German astronomer Johannes Kepler made sketches of sunspots in 1607 from his observations of the sun’s…
Continue ReadingThe world’s largest iceberg is spinning in an ocean vortex with no end in sight
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For months, a gargantuan iceberg has been slowly spinning in one spot in the Southern Ocean — and it could…
Continue ReadingNASA’s decision on Boeing Starliner astronauts more than a week away
By Jackie Wattles, Kristin Fisher and Ross Levitt, CNN (CNN) — Two NASA astronauts who have had their mission to the International Space…
Continue ReadingCentury-old theory of where Stonehenge’s Altar Stone came from overturned by new study
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Stonehenge’s Altar Stone, which lies at the heart of the ancient monument in southern England, was likely…
Continue ReadingA supernova shone in the night sky 1,000 years ago. Astronomers have now found its leftover ‘zombie star’
By Jacopo Prisco, CNN (CNN) — For six months in 1181, a dying star left a mark in the night sky. The striking object appeared as bright as…
Continue ReadingAmerican cities are getting unbearably hot. These ones are roasting the most
By Amy O’Kruk and Angela Dewan, CNN (CNN) — No, it’s not your imagination — summers in the US really are getting hotter. And longer.…
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Underground reservoir on Mars could fill oceans on the planet’s surface, study finds
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Data from a retired NASA mission has revealed evidence of an underground reservoir of water deep beneath the…
Continue ReadingNew study finds invasive Jorō spiders ‘keep cool under pressure’
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — Spiders have a reputation for giving some humans a fright, but a team of scientists has flipped the script to…
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