The Eta Aquariid meteor shower is at its peak. Here’s how to see it
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Eta Aquariid meteor shower has reached its peak — and you’ll need to get up early to see this…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Eta Aquariid meteor shower has reached its peak — and you’ll need to get up early to see this…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have been trying to determine the cosmic origins of the heaviest elements, like gold, for…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Only days after the Trump administration dismissed authors of a congressionally mandated climate report, two of…
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states Thursday in an…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Stored in a church crypt in a remote Alpine village, a set of unusually well-preserved human remains has long been a…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Glimmering, deep-blue solar panels carpet rooftops in Pakistan’s largest cities and dot the perimeters of…
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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration has dismissed all the scientists and other authors working on the next authoritative…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A batch of Amazon satellites hitched a ride to low-Earth orbit, marking the biggest stride yet in the tech…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An invisible molecular cloud that could shed light on how stars and planets form has been detected surprisingly…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — Legends of young heroes fighting lions to the death appear in Roman records and artwork, but scant physical…
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By Morgan Severson, CNN Atlanta (CNN) — A family of seven recently overstayed their welcome at a swanky, boutique hotel in Atlanta’s trendy…
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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — About 50 million years ago, a small bird waded along a lakeshore in what today is central Oregon. A worm…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — The head of the US National Science Foundation, a $9 billion agency charged with advancing discoveries across…
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By Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — President Donald Trump is trying to fast track a brand new, highly controversial industry –…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration canceled the lease for its top climate monitoring lab, located in New York City, as of…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An almost overlooked fossil discovered in a Brazilian museum collection has revealed the oldest ant specimen known…
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By Jack Guy, CNN London (CNN) — Archaeologists working at a site in south Wales have uncovered dozens of skeletons – mostly women – which…
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By Fred He and Sophia Saifi, CNN (CNN) — A Pakistani astronaut will become the first foreign national aboard China’s Tiangong space station,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — A skeleton recovered from an intriguing Roman-era cemetery in England may mark the first physical evidence of…
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By the Associated Press Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — A massive, extinct reptile that once snacked on dinosaurs had a broad snout like an alligator’s, but it owed its…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration quietly released key climate change data last week that has historically been…
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By Kameryn Griesser and Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — After months without a meteor shower, sky-gazers now have a reason to keep their chins…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — When astronomers search for evidence of life beyond Earth, what signs are they seeking? Would clues be traced…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Longtime NASA astronaut Don Pettit, who has ventured to space four times, returned to Earth on Saturday night…
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