Month: April 2023

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN Sarracenia pitcher plants, found in bogs throughout eastern North America, look like trumpet-shaped flowers, often in purplish or reddish hues. But looks can be deceiving. The striking “flowers” are actually modified leaves, forming a cup that contains digestive enzymes. When a small animal — usually an insect — wanders too close,

By Katie Hunt and Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA satellite that observed solar flares and helped scientists understand the sun’s powerful bursts of energy fell to Earth this week, almost 21 years after it was launched. The retired Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI) spacecraft, which launched in 2002 and was decommissioned in

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN A hybrid solar eclipse — the first of its kind in nearly 10 years — is on the way. During this rare celestial event, the moon will pass between Earth and the sun in such a way that people in its narrow central eclipse path, including parts of Australia, East Timor

By Angus Watson and Heather Chen, CNN Eleven Indonesian fishermen were rescued by Australian maritime authorities from a tiny island after being stranded for six days without food or water, but there are fears nine others may have drowned. Two fishing boats were destroyed last week by Tropical Cyclone Ilsa, one of the strongest storms