US & World

By Kristen Rogers, CNN A large international team of researchers has identified nine groups of newly described butterflies, and one colorful genus…

By Mostafa Salem, Anna Chernova and Isil Sariyuce, CNN Turkey’s main opposition candidate Kemal Kilicdaroglu has accused Russia of interfering…

By Elliott Gotkine, Ibrahim Dahman, Abeer Salman, Richard Allen Greene, Alex Stambaugh and Sana Noor Haq, CNN Palestinian militants launched rockets…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers have spotted the largest cosmic explosion ever witnessed, and it’s 10 times brighter than any known…

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN Very large things often have small beginnings. That certainly was true for brontotheres, the enormous, rhino-like…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Giant solar balloons were sent 70,000 feet up in the air to record sounds of Earth’s stratosphere — and the…

By Radina Gigova and Laura Paddison, CNN Wildfires raging in Russia’s Ural Mountains killed at least 21 people and hospitalized several others,…

By Laura Paddison, CNN The window to prevent catastrophic climate change is closing. Concentrations of planet-warming carbon pollution in the air are…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN Vast — a California-based startup and one of the newest entrants in the world of privatized spaceflight — plans to use a…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the Voyager probes lifted off weeks apart in 1977, no one expected that the twin spacecraft would have their missions…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When the crewed Artemis II mission makes its lunar flyby in late 2024, we’ll be able to see video of the moon like…

By Jackie Wattles and Tina Burnside, CNN What could be a meteorite struck a home in Hopewell Township, New Jersey, authorities said Monday. The…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope to observe the first asteroid belt seen outside of our solar system and…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A new mission designed to improve hurricane forecasting has launched, just ahead of the June 1 arrival of the 2023 Atlantic…

By Pierre Meilhan, Pauline Lockwood and Heather Chen, CNN Sweden has summoned Iran’s acting ambassador to protest against the execution of…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN One of the great rewards for any scientist or researcher is the joy of unexpected discovery. It’s the kind of feeling…

By Tatiana Arias, Eyad Kourdi, Heather Chen, Jorge Engels and Hafsa Khalil, CNN The rival military factions fighting for control in Sudan are to hold…