Once ‘dead’ thrusters on the farthest spacecraft from Earth are in action again
By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Engineers at NASA say they have successfully revived thrusters aboard Voyager 1, the farthest spacecraft from…
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By Marlowe Starling, CNN (CNN) — A research team in China got creative in its efforts to save a critically endangered species by turning to…
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By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch…
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By Lianne Kolirin, CNN (CNN) — A biologist tracking whales in the Norwegian fjords, a vast telescope pictured below breathtaking skies and a…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — May’s full moon, known by its popular nickname as the flower moon to signify the many blossoms of spring,…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Sometimes, a great find is hiding right beneath one’s nose in the humblest of places: on paper.…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A Soviet-era spacecraft that was designed to make a soft landing on Venus — but instead remained trapped in…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — For around 2,000 years, global sea levels varied little. That changed in the 20th century. They started rising…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday its well-known “billion-dollar weather…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Things are heating up hundreds of miles off the coast of Oregon, where a large undersea volcano is showing…
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By Nell Lewis, CNN (CNN) — Crashing waves, glistening sea spray, a calm expanse of deep blue. These are the images that open “Ocean with…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — An island 50 miles (80 kilometers) off the southern tip of the Korean Peninsula is home to a unique and celebrated…
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By Jack Guy, CNN (CNN) — The direct ancestor of Tyrannosaurus rex would have arrived in North America after crossing a land bridge from Asia,…
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By Catherine Nicholls, CNN (CNN) — Researchers working to decipher the contents of a burned, still-rolled scroll have uncovered both the author…
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By Annie Grayer, Ella Nilsen, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration is preparing to eliminate two key Environmental Protection Agency divisions…
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By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A piece of a Soviet vehicle that malfunctioned en route to Venus more than 50 years ago is due to crash back to…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — For many people, the term “mummy” usually brings to mind images of Egyptian sarcophagi. But the history…
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CNN By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — The Eta Aquariid meteor shower has reached its peak — and you’ll need to get up early to see this…
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By Ashley Strickland, CNN (CNN) — Astronomers have been trying to determine the cosmic origins of the heaviest elements, like gold, for…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Immunologist Jacob Glanville came across media reports in 2017 of a man who had injected himself hundreds of times…
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By Amarachi Orie, CNN (CNN) — Marine archaeologists have discovered that two shipwrecks in Costa Rica are the remains of Danish slave ships…
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By Andrew Freedman, CNN (CNN) — Only days after the Trump administration dismissed authors of a congressionally mandated climate report, two of…
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By Hannah Rabinowitz, Ella Nilsen, Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — The Trump administration filed lawsuits against four states Thursday in an…
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By Katie Hunt, CNN (CNN) — Stored in a church crypt in a remote Alpine village, a set of unusually well-preserved human remains has long been a…
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By Laura Paddison, CNN (CNN) — Glimmering, deep-blue solar panels carpet rooftops in Pakistan’s largest cities and dot the perimeters of…
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By Amanda Schupak, CNN (CNN) — The story of two of the strangest animals on the planet just got a little stranger, thanks to clues revealed by…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — Living in a house made of fungi and bacteria may sound like the stuff of science fiction, but researchers are…
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By Kameryn Griesser, CNN (CNN) — A newly released image of the sun captured by the world’s largest solar telescope shows the surface of our…
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