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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Translucent, fragile marine creatures that drift through the sea are riding the motion of the ocean to a destination…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Ocean surface heat is at record-breaking levels. Temperatures began climbing in mid-March and skyrocketed over the course of…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN With bright meteors blazing across the sky from the Aquariids meteor shower and a chance to see a lunar eclipse, Friday will…

By Adie Vanessa Offiong, CNN On September 22, 2020 while out filming, Indigenous Guatemalan journalist Andrea Ixchíu Hernández was attacked shortly…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Traces of ancient DNA contained in old bones have spilled fascinating secrets about the past. But extracting genetic material…

By Jack Guy In a world first, scientists have observed the moment that a dying star consumed a planet — a fate that eventually awaits Earth. While…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Traces of ancient hormones were detected in the tusks of a woolly mammoth that lived more than 33,000 years ago, revealing…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water vapor around a rocky exoplanet that orbits a star located 26 light-years…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Exceptionally well-preserved fossils of tiny worms, starfish, sponges, barnacles and other creatures with no modern parallel…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN Archaeologists in Livorno, Italy, are putting together the pieces of a great mystery that began with a stunning find. While…

By Balint Bardi, Antonia Mortensen, Eleanor Pickston and Heather Chen, CNN A far-right activist convicted of terrorism was among several prisoners…

By Heather Chen and Mariya Knight, CNN A mural depicting a fallen Ukrainian soldier executed by Russian forces in 2022 has appeared in the heart of…

By Mitchell McCluskey, Eyad Kourdi, Heather Chen and CNN journalists in Sudan Red Cross aid landed in Sudan for the first time since fighting broke…

By Sahar Akbarzai and Heather Chen, CNN The daughter of jailed Russian opposition figure Alexey Navalny says her father’s health is…

By Jackie Wattles and Danya Gainor, CNN Since SpaceX’s inaugural test flight of the most powerful rocket ever constructed, the company’s…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN In some ways, Earth’s oceans are as alien to us as distant moons in the solar system. The vast bodies of water cover…

By Kareem El Damanhoury and Heather Chen, CNN Three civilians were injured and a gas station set on fire early Saturday near the Syrian city of Homs…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN One of Earth’s largest habitats could see its rich diversity of life reduced by the end of the century due to the…

By Tim Lister, CNN New research has revealed the extent to which Iran has built a powerful weapons industry based on Western technology, and how that…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Researchers have embarked on an ambitious global initiative to discover and record marine life hidden in the world’s oceans.…

By Mostafa Salem and Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan largely canceled two days of campaigning as crucial elections loom…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have captured for the first time the shadow of a black hole and the powerful jet of material emerging from it…

By Katie Hunt, CNN Nature documentaries have never been more visually breathtaking — drone footage and high-definition photography make watching…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers first discovered quasars, considered to be the brightest and most powerful objects in the universe, 60 years…

By Richard Roth and Hira Humayun, CNN Haiti’s crime rate has more than doubled since last year, as the Caribbean island nation faces widespread…

By Heather Chen, CNN Philip Mehrtens, the New Zealand pilot held hostage by separatist fighters in Indonesia’s restive Papua region, has…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Black holes have a reputation for snacking on stars, but some of these celestial garbage disposals may be messier than…