US & World

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…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Dangerous, record-breaking heat waves are set to increase as the climate crisis intensifies, and they will be particularly…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN A Japanese lunar lander, carrying a rover developed in the United Arab Emirates, attempted to find its footing on the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When quakes rumbled on Mars and a meteorite smacked into the red planet during the past four years, NASA’s InSight…

By Eyad Kourdi, Pierre Meilhan, Celina Tebor and Heather Chen, CNN Canada has told its citizens in Sudan that evacuations are “not possible at…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Rocket launches are like opening a box of chocolates, only riskier — you never know what you’re going to get. And…

By Martha Shade, CNN It all seems so daunting: plastics in the ocean, dying coral reefs, entire species being wiped out — but don’t click…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN After the first test launch of a SpaceX Starship rocket — the most powerful launch vehicle ever constructed — ended in an…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN After no major annual meteor showers for months, the Lyrids are here to end the drought. Known as one of the oldest-recorded…

By Laura Paddison, CNN Droughts, floods and record low ice levels — from the top of the world’s mountains to the depths of the ocean, the…