Juno mission spies feature looking like a musical note on Europa’s icy surface
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft recently flew by Jupiter’s moon Europa, and one of its cameras spied fascinating features on the…
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USS Cole Bombing Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here is some background information about the bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen on October 12, 2000. Facts In October 2000, the…
Continue Reading Northern Hemisphere’s extreme summer drought ‘virtually impossible’ without human-made climate change
Cool air heads for the Northeast as rain brings drought relief to the Southwest. CNN meteorologist Pedram Javaheri has the…
Continue Reading Northern Hemisphere’s extreme summer drought ‘virtually impossible’ without human-made climate change
By Christian Edwards, CNN Drought across the Northern Hemisphere this summer — which scorched soil, dried up rivers and triggered mass crop failure…
Continue Reading The first Webb images got a psychedelic, X-ray vision makeover
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Several of the first images captured by the James Webb Space Telescope look a little more psychedelic, thanks to…
Continue Reading Webb, Hubble space telescopes capture an intriguing galactic pair
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When astronomers combine the observational powers of James Webb Space Telescope and Hubble Space Telescope, they capture…
Continue Reading SpaceX, NASA launch 3 astronauts and 1 cosmonaut to the ISS. Here’s everything you need to know
NASA’s DART spacecraft successfully collides with…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN SpaceX and NASA launched a crew of astronauts who hail from all over the world on a trip to the International Space Station…
Continue Reading NASA and SpaceX to send first Native American woman to orbit
By Jackie Wattles, CNN The first Native American woman ever to travel to Earth’s orbit will take flight this week on a SpaceX Crew Dragon…
Continue Reading Asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs also triggered a global tsunami
By Ashley Strickland, CNN When a city-size asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, it wiped out the dinosaurs — and sent a monster…
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Ukraine is hitting Russia hard in the regions Moscow is trying to seize
(CNN) — As Vladimir Putin lost more of the Ukrainian territory he is seeking to annex, his government on Tuesday sought to finalize the…
Continue Reading Comet-like debris trail spotted after spacecraft crashes into asteroid
NASA made history when it successfully crashed the DART spacecraft into the asteroid Dimorphos. CNN space and defense correspondent Kristin Fisher…
Continue Reading Comet-like debris trail spotted after spacecraft crashes into asteroid
By Ashley Strickland, CNN At first glance, a new image captured by a telescope in Chile looks like a dazzling comet streaking across the night sky,…
Continue Reading The US says it’s helping Iranians navigate a massive internet blackout. Activists say it’s too little, too late
Iranian authorities have imposed tough restrictions on the use of the internet by blocking social media sites in a crackdown following the protests…
Continue Reading The US says it’s helping Iranians navigate a massive internet blackout. Activists say it’s too little, too late
By Katie Polglase, Gianluca Mezzofiore and Lauren Kent, CNN As protesters took to the streets of Iran following the death in detention of Mahsa…
Continue Reading The US says it’s helping Iranians navigate a massive internet blackout. Activists say it’s too little, too late
Parnaz Foroutan, author of the memoir “Home Is a Stranger,” says morality police in Iran detained her for showing part of her ankle beneath her…
Continue Reading Stolen in 1917, this 1,000-year-old manuscript was just returned to its rightful owners
By Zoe Sottile, CNN A 1,000-year-old manuscript looted during World War I has been returned to the Greek monastery from where it was stolen more than…
Continue Reading Dramatic images show spacecraft collision with an asteroid
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The DART mission made history this week when it successfully slammed into an asteroid — and we got to see it happen…
Continue Reading Erin Burnett: ‘Ukraine’s story will define the world we all live in’
Erin Burnett spotlights the Velychko siblings — two brothers and a sister – who emigrated from Ukraine years ago, and are assisting those now…
Continue Reading Erin Burnett: ‘Ukraine’s story will define the world we all live in’
By Tricia Escobedo, CNN Oleksandr Urazov and his family escaped war-torn Ukraine, thanks to his childhood friend, Alex Velychko, who now lives in New…
Continue Reading Webb telescope spies a celestial sparkler among the universe’s earliest galaxies
By Ashley Strickland, CNN The very first image captured by the James Webb Space Telescope is revealing some of the oldest stars and galaxies in the…
Continue Reading Webb telescope spies a celestial sparkler among the universe’s earliest galaxies
New images of a stellar nursery in the Orion Nebula taken by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveal intricate details about how stars and planetary…
Continue Reading Webb, Hubble space telescopes share images of DART slamming into an asteroid
By Ashley Strickland, CNN Two of the most powerful telescopes in space watched as a NASA spacecraft intentionally slammed into an asteroid this week.…
Continue Reading NASA spacecraft captures image of ocean world orbiting Jupiter during flyby
By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft flew by one of the most intriguing ocean worlds in our solar system on Thursday. The Juno spacecraft,…
Continue Reading Dogs can smell when humans are stressed, study suggests
By Megan Marples, CNN There’s now scientific evidence shedding more light on one of Barkley’s impressive skills in a long list of…
Continue Reading Spiral galaxy captured in ‘unprecedented detail’ by Webb telescope
By Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN A dazzling spiral galaxy located 29 million light-years from Earth appears in “unprecedented…
Continue Reading New images reveal moment of DART asteroid impact captured by Italian satellite
By Ashley Strickland, CNN History was made Monday night when NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft successfully slammed into the…
Continue Reading Islamic New Year Fast Facts
CNN Editorial Research Here is a look at the Islamic New Year. For followers of Islam in the western hemisphere, the next New Year begins on the…
Continue Reading Artemis I rocket rolled back inside as Hurricane Ian treks toward Florida
By Kristin Fisher, Jackie Wattles and Ashley Strickland, CNN NASA has rolled the massive Artemis I mega moon rocket back into its hangar, called the…
Continue Reading Japan demands apology from Russia after diplomat allegedly blindfolded and interrogated
By Heather Chen, Junko Ogura and Jake Kwon and Uliana Pavlova CNN Japan is demanding a formal apology from Russia after Federal Security Service…
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