US & World

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…