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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The icy extremes of Earth have long beckoned explorers with the promise of discovering uncharted territory.…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — At the heart of the ancient city of Petra, Jordan, carved into pink sandstone cliffs, lies an elaborate monument…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Drought is now so bad in parts of southern Africa that governments say they must kill hundreds of their most…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Two male lions became infamous for terrorizing and eating humans in 1898 during construction of a railway…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — New observations of Jupiter’s Great Red Spot captured by the Hubble Space Telescope show that the…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — When a National Geographic documentary team discovered a boot and sock sticking out of a melting glacier on Mount…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Archaeologists have identified the cannibalized remains of a senior officer who perished during an ill-fated 19th…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — A new 3D scan has revealed previously unseen details of the wreck of Antarctic explorer Ernest Shackleton’s HMS…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Colorful auroras could be visible in areas of the United States such as Alabama and Northern California —…

By Ashley Strickland and Taylor Nicioli, CNN (CNN) — A recently discovered comet, known as C/2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, will make its closest…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — The warm, damp environments of your showerhead and toothbrush are the perfect breeding ground for microbes, and a…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN (CNN) — The exceptionally warm water of the Gulf of Mexico that supercharged deadly Helene last month was made up to 500…

By Christian Edwards and Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to a trio of scientists who used artificial…

By Christian Edwards and Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Nobel Prize in physics has been awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton for…

By Vasco Cotovio, CNN Lisbon (CNN) — For three days in mid-September, wildfires rapidly tore through parts of Portugal, turning the sky a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A European spacecraft and two shoebox-size satellites have launched to survey the aftermath from NASA’s…

By Christian Edwards and Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The 2024 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to US scientists Victor Ambros…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Keep your eyes on the night skies to see the elusive Draconid meteor shower, expected to peak Monday evening…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — “Jurassic Park,” and its genetically modified dinosaur escapees, is pure science fiction — it’s never going…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — The best minds in science will be thrust from academic obscurity into the spotlight this week when the Nobel Prizes…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN (CNN) — You have probably seen leaf-cutter ants carrying bits of plants, maybe in a nature documentary, at a science…

By Issy Ronald, CNN (CNN) — For humans, flashing a smile is an easy way to avoid misunderstanding. And, according to a new study, bottlenose…

By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Parts of icy Antarctica are turning green with plant life at an alarming rate as the region is gripped by…

By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — If snapshots of the dazzling “ring of fire” that danced across the skies of South…

By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The wreck of a US Navy destroyer known as the “Ghost Ship of the Pacific” has been found off the coast of…

By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Botanists have grown a long-lost tree species from a 1,000-year-old seed found in a cave in the Judean Desert in the…

By Amy Gunia and Alkira Reinfrank, CNN (CNN) — Apollo mission astronauts who visited the moon between 1969 and 1972 found a hopping motion…

CNN By Steve Almasy, CNN (CNN) — A week ago, Helene was plowing into Florida, thrashing cities and towns on the Gulf Coast while millions of…

CNN By Laura Paddison and Holly Yan, CNN (CNN) — Asheville was touted as a climate haven, a place to escape the worst ravages of extreme…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The NASA team overseeing the iconic Voyager 2 spacecraft made the decision to power down one of its science…