US & World

By Elizabeth Wolfe, Tavleen Tarrant and Jay Croft, CNN Five people were killed in a shooting at a condominium in a Toronto suburb Sunday night,…

By Heather Chen, Lindsay Isaac and Jennifer Hauser, CNN One of Iran’s best-known actresses has been arrested days after she criticized the…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN Some of our favorite space missions are closing out the year in a big way. Artemis I made a literal splash(down) when it…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The Perseverance rover is about to build the first depot of rock and soil samples on another planet. Establishing a cache…

By Ivana Kottasová, CNN The global energy crisis caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine has pushed global demand for coal — the most…

By Kate Golembiewski, CNN Diplodocids were a family of dinosaurs with long necks and, often, even longer tails — some species’ tails reached…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN The first mission to survey nearly all of the water on Earth’s surface has launched. The international Surface Water…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN When NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Test spacecraft slammed into the tiny asteroid Dimorphos, the impact…

By Rachel Ramirez, CNN The world’s largest whales are more than just astonishing creatures. Much like the ocean, soil and forests, whales can…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A NASA spacecraft is gearing up for the first of a series of close encounters with the most volcanic place in the solar…

By Jack Guy, CNN Humans’ ability to walk upright on two legs may have evolved in trees, rather than on the ground, according to scientists…

By Ashley Strickland, CNN A towering whirlwind of dust passed right over the Perseverance rover as it explored the site of an ancient lake on Mars…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN The best chance to see the strongest meteor shower of the year is on its way this week. The Geminids, known for bright,…

By Katie Hunt, CNN The battle against the single-use plastic bag may not be won but it’s definitely under way. Restrictions on their use are in…

By Taylor Nicioli, CNN Resting at the bottom of Mjøsa, the largest lake in Norway, a shipwreck from hundreds of years ago is in almost perfect…

By Jackie Wattles, CNN The Artemis I mission — a 25½-day uncrewed test flight around the moon meant to pave the way for future astronaut missions…