Mars gets hit by hundreds of basketball-size space rocks every year
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Hundreds of basketball-size space rocks slam into Mars each year, leaving behind impact craters and causing…
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Boeing Starliner spacecraft could wait months before return, but officials say astronauts aren’t stranded
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — More than three weeks into a mission that was initially projected to last only days, the two astronauts piloting…
Continue ReadingSkeletons reveal what life was like for elite scribes in ancient Egypt
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Performing administrative tasks in ancient Egypt may not sound physically demanding, but new research has…
Continue ReadingThis smiling robot has a face covered in ‘living’ skin
By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — The soft, pink blob stares at the camera with glassy eyes — before pulling its face into a dimpled smile.…
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This smiling robot has a face covered in ‘living’ skin
CNN By Rebecca Cairns, CNN (CNN) — The soft, pink blob stares at the camera with glassy eyes — before pulling its face into a dimpled smile.…
Continue ReadingThe world’s biggest capital cities are heating up – and Asia tops the charts
By Lex Harvey, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — The world’s largest capital cities are seeing more extremely hot days than ever, according to a new…
Continue ReadingSurprising asteroid sample reveals Bennu may have originated from an ocean world
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — An early analysis of a sample collected from the asteroid Bennu suggests that the space rock had an…
Continue ReadingSpacewalk suits are decades old. NASA just canceled plans for new ones due
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The iconic puffy white suits that astronauts have donned for decades as they step outside the International…
Continue ReadingAncient bone could reveal how Neanderthals cared for a child with Down syndrome
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A fossilized ear bone unearthed in a cave in Spain has revealed a Neanderthal child who lived with Down syndrome…
Continue ReadingThis mass bleaching event is the worst on record. Now scientists are hoping for hurricanes
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — Unprecedented ocean heat has triggered the world’s worst mass coral bleaching event on record – a coral…
Continue ReadingSpaceX to build vehicle that will drag the International Space Station out of orbit
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — NASA will pay SpaceX up to nearly $1 billion to develop a vehicle capable of steering the International Space…
Continue ReadingDecades after the famed Kyrenia shipwreck’s discovery, researchers have a new estimate of when it sank
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A lone diver first laid eyes on the ancient Kyrenia shipwreck off the north coast of Cyprus nearly 60 years ago.…
Continue ReadingDiscovery of a Bronze Age dye workshop reveals secrets of history’s most precious pigment
By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — For thousands of years, one color rose above all others — and was worth more than its weight in gold,…
Continue ReadingThe world’s future energy wars will be fought under the sea
By Angela Dewan, International Climate Editor, CNN London (CNN) — When New Yorkers grab their morning coffee, it’s their electric grid that…
Continue ReadingSatellite launches to keep an eye on space weather as solar activity ramps up
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Forecasters will soon be able to see real-time mapping of lightning activity on Earth and keep a closer eye…
Continue ReadingScientists identify new Antarctic ice sheet ‘tipping point,’ warning future sea level rise may be underestimated
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Antarctic ice sheet is melting in a new, worrying way that scientific models used to project future sea…
Continue ReadingA weird sea creature was anatomically unlike anything ever seen — flipping it around led to a revelation
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — An extinct ribbonlike sea creature about the size of a human thumb was one of the earliest animals to evolve a…
Continue ReadingNASA calls off spacewalk at last minute as astronaut suit malfunctions
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Two US astronauts abandoned plans to exit the International Space Station to conduct maintenance on Monday due…
Continue ReadingFinally, an answer to a mystery surrounding these 1,000-year-old trees
By Tom Page, CNN (CNN) — For millions of years, mighty baobabs have been standing sentry on three different landmasses, posing each other an…
Continue ReadingThis technology could transform one of the world’s dirtiest industries. Experts say it’s way off pace
By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — On a strip of land in northern Sweden, not far from the Arctic Circle, a new facility is taking shape which…
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