SpaceX Polaris Dawn crew returns home after history-making mission
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is home, capping off a five-day mission to orbit — which included the world’s…
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Puzzling fossil discovery could reveal why Neanderthals disappeared
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Some chapters of human history are more poignant to revisit than others. The Battle of Waterloo ended a…
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A landslide triggered a 650-foot mega-tsunami in Greenland. Then came something inexplicable
CNN By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high…
Continue ReadingNew evidence upends contentious Easter Island theory, scientists say
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, never experienced a ruinous population collapse, according to an analysis of…
Continue Reading‘A giant leap’: Why a tech billionaire’s climb outside a spacecraft was so historic
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn crew is beginning its fifth day in orbit, having marked a few record-setting milestones…
Continue ReadingClimate protesters are taking action against Big Oil. UK courts are handing them prison terms akin to rapists and thieves
By Kara Fox, CNN London (CNN) — As right-wing rioters attacked communities with racist violence across parts of the UK last month, 22-year-old…
Continue ReadingBoeing Starliner astronaut: ‘We found some things that we just could not get comfortable with’
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The two NASA astronauts who piloted the first crewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule — and were…
Continue ReadingThe search for the origin of Stonehenge’s mysterious Altar Stone intensifies
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — In the hopes of solving one of the enduring mysteries about the iconic monolith, geologists have shifted the…
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Eels’ escape shows ‘the fight for survival doesn’t end after being eaten,’ scientist says
By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — When you’re a predatory fish, sometimes the lunch you gobbled up doesn’t agree with you. Rather than…
Continue ReadingScientists who discovered mammals can breathe through their anuses receive Ig Nobel prize
By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The world still holds many unanswered questions. But thanks to the efforts of the research teams awarded the IG…
Continue ReadingA landslide triggered a 650-foot mega-tsunami in Greenland. Then came something inexplicable
By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — It started with a melting glacier that set off a huge landslide, which triggered a 650-foot high mega-tsunami…
Continue ReadingChina’s secretive space plane has returned to Earth. Its mission? Unknown
By Simone McCarthy, CNN Hong Kong (CNN) — A Chinese “reusable experimental spacecraft” believed to be the country’s secretive space plane…
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Four civilians on a daring SpaceX mission complete the first commercial spacewalk
CNN By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A four-person crew of civilians on board SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission unlocked the…
Continue ReadingMesmerizing photos from the Astronomy Photographer of the Year contest
By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The phases of Venus, the Aurora Australis and the International Space Station transiting the Sun all feature as…
Continue ReadingThe Great Dying once wiped out 90% of life on Earth. A new theory may explain why
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — A cataclysm engulfed the planet some 252 million years ago, wiping out more than 90% of all life. Known as the Great…
Continue ReadingCave discovery in France may explain why Neanderthals disappeared, scientists say
By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — When archaeologist Ludovic Slimak unearthed five teeth in a rock shelter in France’s Rhône Valley in 2015, it was…
Continue ReadingAmputated limbs and butchered horses uncovered in Battle of Waterloo ‘gore’ pit
By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A pile of amputated limbs and the remains of several military horses have been excavated at the site of the…
Continue ReadingFour civilians on a daring SpaceX mission complete the first commercial spacewalk
By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A four-person crew of civilians on board SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission unlocked the…
Continue ReadingGiant bubbles on the surface of a nearby star preview the fate of our sun
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have observed the detailed motions of giant gas bubbles on the surface of a nearby star for the…
Continue ReadingSpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission just made history. But the riskiest part is still to come
By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — SpaceX’s Polaris Dawn mission kicked off early Tuesday, launching a four-person crew of civilian astronauts…
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